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. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Barbena grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She moved out south to avoid the crime she committed. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: German accent

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

Description: This tall, slender woman wears dull brown sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shortbow, just in case. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length red hair. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Peridot (30 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and carries sickles. His hair is cut close to his head. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Hematite (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His cinnamon fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

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 also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born to a Farmer, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. Her copper crest is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp. Fire opal (1300 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: This man wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a flail on his belt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The war was a terrible time for him, and Krimmon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 40000 cp. Black pearl (1500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 3200 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Bookbinder work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bookbinder work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 90 gp. Lapis lazuli (11 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.