Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her white hair is heavily combed to the right. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Helja learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Beggar job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Job, Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 gp. Jacinth (5000 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. 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 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: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He bought a warhammer and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp. Black pearl (600 gp). Rose (50 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a bastard sword, but if one is not available he will default to his monstrous two handed axe. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hugh studied abroad. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Amber (110 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His crest is short and green. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. 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 wavy silver hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. After a long history of fighting, Neega and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 5000 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Jet (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her long red hair reaches down to her waist. Her ears are large.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Helen was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Mayor; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Family, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (140 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp).

Description: This man wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Kilvar speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Kilvar was born the youngest of three triplets. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Banker. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Red spinel (120 gp). Sard (60 gp).