Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is an amazing painter.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1500 pp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He stands about 3'3" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is chestnut and very short. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 700 pp. Carnelian (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He keeps his lavender fur in a flapper bob. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Server father left him crippled. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful, Disease. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 pp. Rose (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Iolite (20 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Red spinel (80 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Blue sapphire (1400 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Sard (20 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Rose (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His tied-back hair is golden. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is a Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: John was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 7000 gp. Canary diamond (6000 gp). Jet (100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Peridot (40 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears just a blue suit. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dwarven companion (his 'brother'). In the meantime he has taken over work as a Mason and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Mason responsibilities is difficult; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Debt. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 pp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (20 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp). 1 Major magic item.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. The war was a terrible time for him, and Peter does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Peter was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor. Her white hair is cut short. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is an amazing painter.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Fortune-teller. She's also a talented Masseuse, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 11000 gp. Amethyst (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1300 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp). Golden pearl (40 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.