Description: 3'0" and muscular, this western woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her golden hair is heavily combed to the left. She has amber eyes.

Personality: Nyx hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Sculptor arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (150 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Aramil is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 11000 cp.

Description: This malnourished woman is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her blue hair is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

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. In her youth she was a Stableman, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. White pearl (70 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a large white jacket. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Kabbarg was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She tends to her Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern man wears a black costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His clothes are grease stained in places. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kûga grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the north were limited. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: He is typically in his Healer uniform. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his blonde hair in a flapper bob. He is baby faced.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Healer. He tends to his Healer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Hedonist, Shy. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man usually wears his tan robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. White pearl (40 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Coral (40 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. He has a dull look in his silver eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Zepar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Bounty Hunter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Cartwright, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 400 pp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Black pearl (700 gp).

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has no hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.