Description: This woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on her left hand. She has done her best to style her dark red hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She got into the Architect business at a young age. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She's also a talented Bookbinder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 11000 gp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (20 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (90 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2100 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1500 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears bulky blue painted plate armor. His white hair is heavily combed to the right. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Heian alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a hunchback. She has a very tight haircut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, Egelina 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 knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a fancy yellow suit. His long red hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. 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 knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp). Alexandrite (300 gp). Obsidian (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Amethyst (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'10". She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the right. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. 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, Kathra is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Artistic, Athletic. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 600 pp. Jade (120 gp). Jet (120 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears bulky red painted plate armor. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. She found a children's book about a Halfling 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. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Crown-heir and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 pp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Coral (50 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Jade (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 9000 gp. Alexandrite (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Sard (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.