Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is an epitome of beauty. Her red hair is well kept. This blue eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 260 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His parents were killed by brigands in a raid when he was still a young child. The brigands captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She stands about 5'3" and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Andraste is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Andraste was born with her father's beautiful face. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice, Logical. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Tailor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. 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: Someone believes him a fraud; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Red garnet (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his brown boots flare out at the collars. His hair is chestnut and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Crowbar. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Gifted from a young age, Beiro studied abroad. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. After a long history of fighting, Beiro and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Obsidian (13 gp). White pearl (90 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her blue crest is lengthy. Her eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Jet (150 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp). 6 Acid flasks.

Description: This northern woman is wearing a long, violet cloak. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has done her best to style her auburn hair to look like a famous performer. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Ielenia was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Painter. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Secretive, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.