Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her black fur is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Aura hails from a village terrorized by drow. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Aura has worked very hard to control her curse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His scarlet crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He has no crest. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Rhogar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She keeps her white fur in a flapper bob. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Jade (150 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His gray fur is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Dagger was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She carries with her a set of sais, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bardryn studied abroad. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bardryn fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Emotional. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Jet (40 gp). Eye agate (7 gp).

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She carries with her a set of longswords, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beleth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 3000 sp. Moonstone (20 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is silver and curly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 800 gp. Moss agate (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born to a Weaver, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Being a Beggar 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: To clean up the streets; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, Poor, Criminal record, Guardian. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Just what you see.