Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. With wild chestnut hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Althaea took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up greataxe and armor she uses now. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 500 gp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Jade (160 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a club on her belt. She is an epitome of beauty. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her hair is purple and very short. This silver eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She got into the Healer business at a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver pearl (110 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He carries a battered sai and tarnished club as well. His rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and morningstars. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Banker who has hired her part-time. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ella 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 Ella. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Has a crush, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100000 cp. Moonstone (30 gp). Black star sapphire (800 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She 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, and carries sais. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Fistula was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her first spouse was a Slave Trader, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a fancy yellow suit. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born to a Jeweler, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His childhood dream was to be a Jeweler, but he was a colossal failure. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and balancing his hectic life and new beggar responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 gp. Emerald (400 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp).

Description: She dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with blue slacks. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.