Description: This northern woman wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull blue iron scale mail. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Barbena was born with her mother's beautiful face. 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. After months of barely getting by, Barbena managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears an entirely grey suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her blonde hair is still thick. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Avelina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Farmer they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Assassin, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His red crest has been sun bleached extensively. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Zedaar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zedaar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1700 sp. A silver and pearl hairclip (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He has auburn hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Galinndan was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Monk, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Monk in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He 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. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a grey tunic with black highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has moderate length auburn hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Slave Trader hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He bought a sai and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'1". She wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes, and her gloved hand is found clutching a ceremonial dagger. Her golden hair is still thick. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Shautha was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Spits words with contempt

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

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born into a rich family. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is silver and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and to reunite with his absent mother

Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.