Description: This younger middle-aged woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her black hair is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Portia grew up listening to her father's many stories. Portia abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sai.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has wavy white hair. She has a tattooed face.

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 stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a black tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Cairn was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Cairn was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Star ruby (1300 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His first spouse was a Healer, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She prefers to wear flannel. She has wavy red hair. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and balancing her hectic life and new dilettante responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 10000 cp. Banded agate (14 gp). Jasper (80 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Greedy, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 900 gp. Pink pearl (120 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'2" and muscular, this northern man wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a black scarf. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hadarai 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: Athletic, Optimist, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortspear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born into a rich family. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has dyed her greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Korinn was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 600 gp. Aquamarine (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.