Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: Astaro hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 700 gp. Star rose quartz (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Chrysoberyl (100 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a fancy brown dress. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 sp. Tourmaline (60 gp). Jade (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'9" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by unlife.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her fur, while still mostly cinnamon, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She comes from a rich western family. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Fire opal (1000 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp).

Description: 6'7" and muscular, this southern woman wears black trousers with green and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her silver crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are likewise red. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born to a Fortune-teller, her mother struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Fisher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His head has been shaved. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 500 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). Jet (150 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with grey slacks. He has a hunchback. His hair is white and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 33000 sp. Eye agate (14 gp). Sard (30 gp). Amber (70 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Map Maker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. Jade (110 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp).

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is portly but not overly obese. She has shaved her head bald. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Millicent grew up listening to her father's many stories. She found a children's book about a Half-Elf Ranger who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp.