Description: 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 slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She refers to her adoptive father 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: She comes from a rich southern family. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Adventurer they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Dilettante, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a simple green robe with black stripes complete with hood. She has moderate length dark red hair. She has white eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Astaro hails from a village terrorized by drow. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 13000 cp. Aquamarine (1200 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears baggy grey pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her red hair is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her monstrous two handed axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She carries with her a set of monstrous two handed axes on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. With bright silver hair. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man tends to wear a large grey jacket. He wears his silver hair up. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Uraim was born the youngest of three triplets. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Interpreter responsibilities is difficult; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. 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. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Helen never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A 6'6" eastern woman, she wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her brass crest is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Zykroff's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Zykroff liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. After a long history of fighting, Zykroff and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His auburn hair is long and unkept. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Fonkin was born the youngest of three triplets. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Being a Carpenter kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and 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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (30 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp).