Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 3'2" and wears a blue shirt, with a red mid length shorts with red tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Igden was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Brewer they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Interpreter, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Standing 5'7", this man wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a rapier on his belt. His black hair is thinning but still full. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. 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 a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 60 pp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ellyjoybell does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Military. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 sp. Hematite (14 gp). 1 Holy water. 2 Smokesticks. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thorin does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a red cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has silver hair. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Servant arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. 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: To reunite with her absent father; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is brown and curly. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her first spouse was a Dyer, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Jet (130 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He has violet eyes and a tan hat with a green feather.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.