Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She 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. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants revenge against orcs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 sp. Golden pearl (160 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair is cut short. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Gifted from a young age, Frouse studied abroad. Through the years after Frouse was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Frouse's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: A 5'4" western woman, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'4". She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and her gloved hand is found clutching a shortbow. She wears her chestnut hair up. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Naivara hails from a village terrorized by giants. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears long strands of sapphire and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Ratlûg was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Miner. 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Flaws: Insomniac, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: A 5'9" eastern woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. She has gray eyes and a violet hat with a white feather.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mortician. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2100 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2100 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His black fur is heavily combed to the left. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.