Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a brown coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. Her red hair is long and unkept. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. After a long history of fighting, Agatha and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it.

Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. A friendly and beautiful Human, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Rosalind lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Iolite (60 gp).

Description: He wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. He is portly but not overly obese. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Ahvain hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her ears are large.

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. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is content; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Bloodstone (40 gp). Citrine (40 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Tawna was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Tawna decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greatsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has wavy blonde hair. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Gifted from a young age, Anne studied abroad. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Hematite (10 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Carnelian (40 gp).

Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He wears his blue crest up. His red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: She wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She is portly but not overly obese. She has no fur. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her feathered brown hat.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 900 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp).