Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Helja will drive conversation. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bather they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Tanner, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 350 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This eastern woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her red fur is lengthy. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'5". He typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor, and his gloved hand is found clutching a greatsword. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Warryn's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 4'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To be a Beggar again.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair is cut short. He has violet eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and revenge

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 6000 sp. Golden pearl (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner, and carries bastard swords. Her hair is short and black. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Alice embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Alice has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a sai on her belt. Her rusty crest is greasy and uncared for. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

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

Description: 6'4" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He wears his black hair up. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 pp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (170 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a hunchback. He has wavy white hair. He has violet eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 700 gp.