Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the left. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Veloptima is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Veloptima hails from a village terrorized by goblins. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His blue hair is smooth and relatively long. His black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Pelaios was born with his mother's beautiful face. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pelaios grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Pelaios. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 gp. Black opal (900 gp). Brown-green garnet (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her beige fur is thinning but still full. Her eyes are yellow and catlike.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Windy was born with her father's beautiful face. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1900 gp. Azurite (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Azurite (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has done his best to style his dark red hair to look like a famous performer. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 900 gp. Jasper (50 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Azurite (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a sickle on his belt. His black hair is thinning but still full. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Nicor has worked very hard to control his curse. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 900 gp. Violet garnet (800 gp). Sard (80 gp). Star ruby (900 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'3" and muscular, this eastern woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her golden hair is well kept. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is dressed in an above average manner. She has a long silver ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She is baby faced.

Personality: Liftrasa hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her music career. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has worked as a Dyer like her father before her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Dyer responsibilities is difficult; and to be a fortune-teller again

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a simple green robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her long rusty crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She got into the Stylist business at a young age. Jheri 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. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1100 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Peridot (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her cinnamon fur is braided into rings. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 pp.