Description: She stands about 6'0" and wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Bilga was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She tends to wear a green poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her long gold crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 3200 gp. Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Smoky quartz (30 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Jasper (30 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His head has been shaved. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Himo was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural tabaxi artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1800 gp. Silver ewer (20 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a tan tunic with yellow highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. With bright golden hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: Panana hails from a village terrorized by orcs. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Panana alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Harriet embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. Harriet is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 700 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a black coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. She carries with her a set of glaives, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She hates Half-Orcs with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born in the south to a Apothecary, Brakka learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Brakka fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 sp. Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many violet ritualistic tattoos. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears her silver hair down. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Extrovert. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (60 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a dagger, but if one is not available she will default to her trident. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a Body Guard, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 gp.