Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly lances and greatswords. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Superior lock.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his silver hair down. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He tends to his Brewer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly daggers and hammers. His dark red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: This man loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. He uses divination through singing.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Zepar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 5000 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His brown hair is still thick. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Henry never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'8". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Aramil is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Aramil studied abroad. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and 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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 900 gp. Red spinel (50 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is brown and very short. Her white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. 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 Marshal. She has achieved small success as a Marshal.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1300 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 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 prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. He has dyed his greying white crest a little too much giving a sharp white color. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Nadarr hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Miner

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

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'3" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Fisher; and balancing her hectic life and new ploughman responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Military, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Ekemon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. His parents enrolled him in a Adept school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Family, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1 Small steel mirror. 1 Superior lock. 1 Silk rope.