Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and carries falchions. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the left. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Vanchu was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her 13th 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 3000 gp. Amber (130 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a black costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. 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 loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Orc in existence. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 90 pp. Violet garnet (1200 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Sumnes was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Halfling companion (her 'brother'). One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Persistence, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Peridot (30 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Eye agate (7 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears tattered old clothes. Her head has been shaved. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Puyet was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Zircon (20 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull green iron scale mail. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Oren 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. Oren decided he wanted neither the life of his father 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. Being a Roofer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10000 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Jet (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a long, black cloak. She has no hair. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Bryseis was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. 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. During her travels, Bryseis and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Bryseis discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Bryseis fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears red trousers with violet and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her auburn hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 50000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She stands about 4'1" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Thodris is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a mace on his belt. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: Olrok wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Expert, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... The war was a terrible time for him, and Olrok does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Olrok was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Olrok fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 12000 sp. Star rose quartz (20 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Jasper (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.