Description: This woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her left hand. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. This gray eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1600 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp).

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. Her black crest is braided into rings. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Aasathra was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. After a long history of fighting, Aasathra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 gp. Obsidian (11 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her golden hair is long and unkept. She wears a mask on her face.

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 pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She struck the Marshal job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (110 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a whip, but if one is not available he will default to his club. His purple hair is lengthy. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Red garnet (160 gp). Moonstone (40 gp).

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her tied-back hair is red. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, giants burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying east to reunite her family. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants revenge against giants; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and tan handkerchief worn on his left side. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Peridot (20 gp).

Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his greataxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Alston lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He wears his blue hair up. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp.