Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. She is an epitome of beauty. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Balifra will drive conversation. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Balifra hails from a village terrorized by giants. Her childhood dream was to be a Painter, but she was a colossal failure. She has worked as a Shipwright like her father before her.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Debt. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 130 pp.

Description: She wears professional attire, and she perpetually has her shortbow ready. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Knight arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Eloise fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He wears a colorful flower in his gold crest. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Patrin was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Patrin decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Violet garnet (400 gp).

Description: A 4'7" western woman, she tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

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 lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She tends to her Roofer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new roofer responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a green vest and prefers grey and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished spear as well. He has no hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Tieflings in Cressel's homeland. Cressel decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Deep green spinel (110 gp). Jasper (70 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. His crest is green and very short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Kriv 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. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Tourmaline (160 gp). Golden pearl (160 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). White pearl (160 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. 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, Torgga is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born in a small island village. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Torgga took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up falchion and armor she uses now. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Torgga never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Poor, In love, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 44000 sp. Moss agate (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Kathra abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.