Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She carries with her a set of shields, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 60 pp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing writing.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Eye agate (16 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a brown coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her yellow fur is lengthy. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Gale was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp).

Description: She has a missing right leg. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Blue quartz (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a red shirt, with a brown mid length skirt with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her hair is red and curly. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. 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: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her 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 giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vani fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 gp. Black opal (1000 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She keeps her red crest in a pixie cut. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was taken from her home at a very young age. 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: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Blue sapphire (1500 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane and is in decent physical shape. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Melech was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Melech decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants, and is pretty ugly. She has slicked back black hair. Her eyes are likewise amber.

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. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Verna is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.