Description: A moderately attractive woman, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has moderate length silver hair. She has brown eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Nella abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Moss agate (12 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp). Obsidian (12 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. She is an epitome of beauty. Sporting a white mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Blacksmith. She has worked as a Blacksmith like her mother before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her blonde hair down. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 Elf in existence. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A freak accident while working with her Doctor father left her crippled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ribbles is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Justice, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears an entirely green suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His dark red hair is knotted and matted. His skin is flawless and his black eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Oriax 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. Oriax 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. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He stands about 4'8" and is typically in his Map Maker uniform. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born in the east to a Map Maker, Galinndan learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries a battered mace and tarnished sai as well. His crest is black and curly. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is lengthy. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Banded agate (10 gp). Red spinel (140 gp). Star ruby (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.