Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her gray fur is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. 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, Cloud is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Beggar hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Professionalism, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 3000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (130 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He carries with him a set of bastard swords on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He then took over the family business and is one of the better Barrister for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Slave, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Banded agate (10 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears bulky green painted plate armor. Her dark red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Armara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her first spouse was a Painter, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her flail, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. She has done her best to style her dark red hair to look like a famous performer. Her ears are large.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Anakis will drive conversation. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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: Wants to work out more often; and she is content

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. After a long history of fighting, Lamlis and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful, Mundane. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her brown hair is wavy and long. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. 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 raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Cook arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a black armored body suit, with a simple green line shooting up and back down. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Stylist.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand her business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

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 is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Rael lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spice Merchant and was forced into it by his family; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.