Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Peren was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He is physically well-built. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born to a Locksmith, his mother struggled to pay the bills. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Rose (30 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Zircon (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. Her fur is short and beige. This yellow eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and 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: Impeccable, Joker. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2000 sp. Peridot (80 gp). Red garnet (60 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his monstrous two handed axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. He is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around his ears. He is baby faced.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: The child of a Baker, who enjoyed hunting, Peren was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Peren took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up monstrous two handed axe and armor he uses now. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2300 sp. Banded agate (10 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on his belt. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Herbalist but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Erias was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Fighter, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Fighter in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Erias abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and green handkerchief worn on her right side, and she perpetually has her whip ready. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born into a rich family. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. Azurite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly whips and rapiers. His hair is cut close to his head. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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: Money/treasure; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1000 gp. Jet (160 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). White pearl (160 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants, and is pretty ugly. She keeps her bronze crest in a pixie cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born into a rich family. Pogranix liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 140 gp. Onyx (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.