Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She sports black long hair. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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 got into the Crown-heir business at a young age. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Crown-heir. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Gynnie never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, In love, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1500 gp. Jasper (60 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). White pearl (60 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a white coat, marred by beers. She has shaved her head bald. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is a great chef.

History: Gynnie was born the youngest of three triplets. Her parents enrolled her in a Cleric school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 8000 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (400 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Violet garnet (1500 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Coral (40 gp). Malachite (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Helja embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. 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: Helja was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'9". She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and her gloved hand is found clutching a spear. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She worked as a nervous Bowyer and found it very stressful. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to be a blacksmith again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her white hair is well kept. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1800 sp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 Marshal. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Marshal for hire.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2000 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Blue quartz (9 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she sports pastel clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her fur is black and curly. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This western woman usually wears her yellow robe and has her glaive always slung over her shoulder. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has no hair. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the west were limited. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 150 gp.