Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Birel's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Birel was born with her mother's beautiful face. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father 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. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His cinnamon fur has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor, In love. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'2" and wears a grey coat over a red low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blue stubble. He wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a hunchback. His blue hair is braided into rings. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are white.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Priest.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 gp. Aquamarine (1500 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman prefers to wear flannel. She wears her black hair up. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Shax was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Shax's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 120 pp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gerbo does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A freak accident while working with his Stylist father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

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

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her silver hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the north to a Soapmaker, Agnes learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and green robe with the hood down. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. His childhood dream was to be a Sage, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a sage again

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pirate accent

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

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat, and is pretty ugly. Her brown hair is cut short. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She is a Deep Scion in disguise. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 150 gp.