Description: This late middle aged woman wears long strands of amethyst and short red dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths and is in decent physical shape. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. At some point she was captured by orcs and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a mace, but if one is not available he will default to his longsword. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of goblins may trigger it at times.

History: Gardain hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Gardain alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Courier business.

History: Helgret was born the youngest of three triplets. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longbow.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Black opal (1500 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a brown vest and prefers green and yellow shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her long orange fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are yellow.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 2200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born in the south. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp. Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (4 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp).

Description: This western woman is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and black handkerchief worn on her right side. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her red hair is singed and shortened. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 40000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her cinnamon fur is still thick. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: 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: Opinionated. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. His chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Valafar 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 marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her father. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 900 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp).