Description: She is in excellent shape and prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. Her ears are large.

Personality: Dara hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Dara lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a black costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her brown hair is lengthy. 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 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: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She bought a lance and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Joker, Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: An older woman who wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her lavender fur up. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the west to a Guard, Shadow learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Shadow 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 has worked as a Guard like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear violet clothing when she does not wear armor. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Faral hails from a village terrorized by drow. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Faral alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair is brown and curly. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker white hat.

Personality: Nelkin is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the south were limited. He bought a morningstar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Extrovert, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

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

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, grey shirt, and white tie and is in decent physical shape. His fur is red and curly. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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, Right-Handed is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Butcher. He struck the Butcher job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to be a herbalist again

Ideals: Justice, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. White pearl (110 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy dark red stubble. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and grey tie. He has a hunchback. His hair is short and dark red. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his silver hair down. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born in the south. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 10000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born into a rich family. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 16000 sp. Black opal (1200 gp).