Description: This dark-skinned female wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her green eyes peer out from beneath her feathered grey hat.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Balifra's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She worked as a nervous Mortician and found it very stressful. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand her business; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a husky man, who sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This man wears white painted combat armor at almost all times, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has wavy blonde hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a Butcher first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Butcher for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Ruler. She carries with her a set of hand crossbows on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Ruler. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Isabella was born the youngest of three triplets. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'4". He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He wears his white hair down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has taken up work as a Interpreter and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Interpreter and was forced into it by his family; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is blue and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His green crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

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

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'7". She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise brown.

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. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. She found a children's book about a Halfling Ranger who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has worked as a Barber like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.