Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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 great chef.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Birel was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 east. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her white fur is thinning but still full. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 170 pp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has shaved his head bald. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kelter studied abroad. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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. Kelter fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a green coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. He has moderate length brass crest. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He bought a scythe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Black pearl (900 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Gardener. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. After coming to the age of reason, Thorin took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has worked as a Gardener like his mother before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She wears pastel trousers with yellow and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her red fur is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat, and he perpetually has his longsword ready. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: Standing 2'11", this woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has slicked back blonde hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 87. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Seraphina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 40000 cp. Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He carries a battered warhammer and tarnished mace as well. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 100 gp.