Description: This light-skinned female prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around her ears. Her amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 600 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She usually wears her black robe and has her monstrous two handed axe always slung over her shoulder. She carries a battered crossbow and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the right. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

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. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She became a Courier soon after.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 9000 sp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a greatsword on her belt. Her white hair is braided into rings. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a green tunic with black highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her red crest is matted, messy, and big. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her 13th 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. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Pyxrin never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 pp. Eye agate (11 gp). 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 is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1600 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Performer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: She wears a brown shirt, with a blue mid length skirt with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'0" when asserting herself. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. 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: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. After coming to the age of reason, Morana took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. 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 does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: He has a missing left arm. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His golden hair is still thick. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Calcitro was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. During his travels, Calcitro and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Calcitro discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Calcitro fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 pp. 1 Medium magic item.