Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her dark red hair is unkempt and raggedy. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: Vepar wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Adept, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Peridot (30 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. Her blonde hair is singed and shortened. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a grey armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. His hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and money/treasure

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 280 gp. Amethyst (50 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'10" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Xanaphia was born with her father's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 pp. Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Gold and ruby ring (6000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His green eyes peer out from beneath his feathered violet hat.

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 is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Heian was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is in excellent shape and has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his brown robe. His golden hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Gildmak was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She carries a battered warhammer and tarnished club as well. Her golden hair is still thick. Her ears are large.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was born into a rich family. 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 Bricklayer. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Through the years after Great was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Great's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 500 gp. Chrysoprase (50 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp).