Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She is wearing a long, yellow cloak. She is an epitome of beauty. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Birel was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Trym was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Trym 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. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is short and blonde. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this eastern man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the left. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Rolf's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He got into the Miner business at a young age. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Miner. He has worked as a Miner like his father before him.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 3000 sp. Azurite (16 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a pickaxe on her belt. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Gifted from a young age, Malquis studied abroad. Her childhood dream was to be a Courier, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 220 pp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (170 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp).

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She has slicked back silver hair. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Azurite (5 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. He has no hair. His ears are large.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He takes great joy in being the best Sage in town.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. A gifted student he started as a Farmer, but he got bored and became a Sage. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: He is greedy; and balancing his hectic life and new sage responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1300 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a black costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He comes from a rich western family. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Elven people; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a black vest and prefers green and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She carries with her a set of axes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 80 gp.