Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her red fur is knotted and matted. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her parents were killed by orcs in a raid when she was still a young child. The orcs captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 110 pp. Azurite (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has copper eyes and a pastel hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Cloak lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Herbalist.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 280 pp. Red garnet (160 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She sports red long hair. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 270 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Kyle was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kyle decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 290 pp.

Description: He wears a simple blue robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. He carries a battered mace and tarnished glaive as well. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Roondar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Hadarai isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born in a small island village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Hadarai never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, In love, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: She was born in the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a black coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears just a white suit. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Trym fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 290 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp).