Description: This northern woman wears a red tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver hair, when down, is lengthy. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has wavy green crest. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Courier. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Courier. He has worked as a Courier like his father before him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 12000 sp. Obsidian (8 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit men.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Dayereth grew up listening to his father's many stories. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 90 gp. Rose (30 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. A freak accident while working with his Carpenter mother left him crippled. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 70 gp. Bloodstone (70 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a fancy tan suit. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her right hand. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ishte grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She 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. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his red hair down. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. 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 Sculptor 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: 6'9" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a pastel coat. He has wavy red fur. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Tricking alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.