Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

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. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Tanner for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Herbalist but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf. Her silver hair is still thick. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A freak accident while working with her Herbalist mother left her crippled. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 6'2", this man wears skinny pants and wears a black and grey robe with the hood down. His long green crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Shamash hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Shamash was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe, and is pretty ugly. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Buvvie has worked very hard to control her curse. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Butcher.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Military, Poor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. Deep green spinel (80 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a large black jacket. Her crest is short and red. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. After coming to the age of reason, Mijira took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. She has no hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears violet painted combat armor at almost all times. She has wavy brown hair. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. After coming to the age of reason, Griselda took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.