Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 6000 sp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Black opal (1500 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the south were limited. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Flaws: Emotional, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 130 pp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He has brown eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is a great chef.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His parents enrolled him in a Barbarian school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. 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 has a hunchback. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. 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 recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Cynical. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a tan coat. She carries a battered lance and tarnished longbow as well. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. 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. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vaina fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 2300 sp. Tourmaline (80 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times, marred by chocolates. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She uses divination through singing.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. After coming to the age of reason, Avelina took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 22000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears skinny pants and wears a tan and brown robe with the hood down, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She got into the Interpreter business at a young age. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Carlin grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Carlin. She struck the Interpreter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 30 pp. Rose (50 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Jeweler. He has achieved small success as a Jeweler.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Jeweler responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 6000 sp. Amber (150 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Chalcedony (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.