Description: She stands about 6'1" and tends to wear a large black jacket. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her crest is copper and very short. Her ears are large.

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 has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has shaved his head bald. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Curran is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Curran was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

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

Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His white hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are black and he is always smoking a pipe.

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. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He worked as a nervous Dyer and found it very stressful. He's also a talented Doctor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. Rose (80 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her club, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her hair is dark red and curly. Her eyes are silver.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a Brewer, her father struggled to pay the bills. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 100 gp. Amethyst (60 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Bethrynna was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. 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: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He has shaved his head bald. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Thervan was born the youngest of three triplets. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Shepherd 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 fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 50 pp. Bloodstone (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp).

Description: Standing 5'2", this woman wears tattered old clothes. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a axe, but if one is not available she will default to her halberd. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Hadwisa hails from a village terrorized by drow. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, drow burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying north to reunite her family. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Hadwisa was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of drow

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and black handkerchief worn on his right side. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His childhood dream was to be a Fortune-teller, but he was a colossal failure. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Map Maker for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1700 gp.