Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Body Guard. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a unemployed again

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. Her head has been shaved. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Gifted from a young age, Oriff studied abroad. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He very much looks the part of a Guard. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Thrak was born with his father's beautiful face. He worked as a nervous Guard and found it very stressful. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden pearl (50 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Jet (50 gp). Amber (50 gp). 1 Holy water.

Description: He is typically in his Bather uniform. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Xappan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'7" and muscular, this northern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She wears a colorful flower in her silver crest. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When Furrele reached her early adolescence her Dragonborn father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 600 gp. Bloodstone (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1100 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Fire opal (1500 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a black coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon his head. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the right. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a Dyer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Dyer for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Coral (70 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and she perpetually has her mace ready. She keeps her black crest in a flapper bob. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Blendaeth hails from a village terrorized by giants. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Crown-heir work with an outfit from a few towns over. Crown-heir work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants revenge against giants.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1200 gp. Eye agate (4 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Jet (90 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 prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. Her fur is short and orange. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Ethereal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Mason and found it very stressful. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a sailor again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, marred by beers. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. 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. Being a Cook kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 5000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (30 gp). Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (150 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (30 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp).