Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look and is in decent physical shape. Her long silver crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Farideh was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Farideh decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Military, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her brass crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Stylist profession.

History: She is a Lamia in disguise. Her parents enrolled her in a Adept school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 48000 sp. Red spinel (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 4'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He prefers to wear flannel. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in a small plains village. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. 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: Joker. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2500 gp. Carnelian (80 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His blue crest is long and unkept. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bowyer business.

History: Nykkan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Dilettante. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. The war was a terrible time for her, and Egelina does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born in the east. She took after her father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her father taught her to defend herself. When her father died while fighting brigands, the young Egelina began to lead the lost caravan. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He sports a flattop hair cut. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with white slacks. She carries with her a set of axes, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has black hair. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 gp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His silver crest is singed and shortened. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 200 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (800 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing a long, white cloak, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. 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: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1500 gp. Zircon (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.