Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This western woman wears a violet tunic with black highlights, and long white pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. One day when Ahlyssa was young, her mother was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly her mother dropped to the ground dead. Her mother had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Ahlyssa was heart-stricken from the event, and her father started working long hours to provde for them. After a long history of fighting, Ahlyssa and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He worked as a nervous Detective and found it very stressful. He became a Detective soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1400 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf. She has a hunchback. Her red hair is well kept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is physically well-built. He has wavy silver hair. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and to protect his home

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She stands about 3'0" and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tana fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 900 gp. Coral (120 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has wavy bronze crest. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 sp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: An older woman who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), she is not a threatening figure. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the left. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. A friendly and beautiful Half-Orc, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. She bought a longbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.