Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She is a Hag in disguise. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 200 pp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With wild blonde hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Phann enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Phann abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is short and chestnut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Tanner born in the past three hundred years. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Immeral hails from a village terrorized by goblins. 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 Tanner. He's also a talented Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Many goblins want him driven away.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and carries nunchakus. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Lamlis was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 tends to his Junk Dealer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new junk dealer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Obsidian (12 gp). Amber (150 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Jet (150 gp). Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears professional attire. With bright chestnut hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is content

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her silver hair is lengthy. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a Courier first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Courier but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. A gifted student she started as a Server, but she got bored and became a Courier. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). Red garnet (140 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Jak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate, and carries bows. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red crest is unkempt and raggedy. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp.