Description: This woman is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on her right side, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Valanthe was born with her mother's beautiful face. 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: She loathes her own lifestyle; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1600 gp. Obsidian (16 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a worn and beaten armor. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Ridaro was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Armorer. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears baggy grey pantaloons and a white scarf. She wears a colorful flower in her silver hair. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His brass crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. She has no hair. Her white eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Crown-heir they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Butcher, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern man wears a red wide-brimmed hat and red clothes. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Pikar was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep green spinel (140 gp).

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is blue and curly. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Nicor was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has worked as a Barkeep like his mother before him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to be a bounty hunter again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her tied-back hair is auburn. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature axe.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a violet costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, giants burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1200 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1600 gp).