Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Druid 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. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (8000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. Her hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 6000 gp. Jasper (30 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). White opal (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Hematite (12 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears long strands of amethyst and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length yellow fur. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Ethereal was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

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

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Moss agate (12 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Amethyst (60 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Chrysoberyl (60 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Sard (50 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Tourmaline (60 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His yellow fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Smoking hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Smoking fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 900 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. Her cinnamon fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Shifting was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 8000 gp. Silver pearl (100 gp). Jade (100 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Carnelian (80 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp).

Description: Standing 6'1", this woman wears a pastel coat over a grey low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. Her fur is cinnamon and curly. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Right-Handed lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Right-Handed took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 pp. Sard (70 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, grey shirt, and brown tie. She sports blonde long hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Robbie was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 gp. Lapis lazuli (12 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Jet (60 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Jet (60 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Onyx (50 gp).