Description: 4'10" and muscular, this southern woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Juliana grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Juliana. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 90 gp. Amber (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a shield on her belt. She has styled her brown fur well, parting it to the left. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Quick grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She married young, but lost her spouse to dire rats. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Everburning torch. 3 Tanglefoot bags. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He stands about 5'6" and wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a glaive on his belt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 900 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (50 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She has wavy brown hair. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes illithids are coming to abduct people. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Buvvie has worked very hard to control her curse. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against illithids; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears an entirely black suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His crest, while still mostly brass, has prominent grey streaks. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Through the years after Valorean was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Valorean's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Jet (140 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Buckler.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She struck the Bellfounder job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Gunter has worked very hard to control his curse. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and a strong sense of loyalty to dwarven people

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Selfish. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Rich purple corundum (1200 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Sard (20 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Eye agate (9 gp).

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 wears professional attire. She has wavy orange fur. She has a dull look in her yellow eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born in the west to a Dyer, Smoking learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A gifted student she started as a Weaver, but she got bored and became a Dyer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Dyer for the past few years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new dyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

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

Possessions: 16000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears an eyepatch.

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. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Being a Mercenary 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: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3100 sp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Coral (160 gp).