Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. She carries with her a set of hand crossbows, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: The child of a Courier, who enjoyed hunting, Vaina was taken on many hunting expeditions. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Valafar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a simple blue robe with brown stripes complete with hood. With bright blonde hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Duvamil has worked very hard to control her curse. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 pp. Jade (140 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Moonstone (20 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born in the west to a Doctor, Scrag learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Doctor work with an outfit from a few towns over. Doctor work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her black crest is braided into rings. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this western man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He wears his gold crest down. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Smoky quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he tends to wear a white poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Braak lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Unemployed.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears dull black sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed longbow, just in case, and is pretty ugly. She keeps her bronze crest in a flapper bob. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Burana is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.