Description: This western woman wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has moderate length red hair. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a Body Guard first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a Seamstress, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Arara has worked very hard to control her curse. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 7000 gp. Eye agate (7 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Black star sapphire (600 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

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

Possessions: 9000 gp. Alexandrite (1000 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Sard (50 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Rock crystal (50 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). Rose (50 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Amethyst (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). White pearl (70 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 3000 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (120 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are blue.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Reirak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Jasper (50 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Mortician. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He worked as a nervous Mortician and found it very stressful. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mortician.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 23000 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 (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (100 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her silver eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She receives visions of the future at random moments

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 married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 800 pp. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He prefers to wear flannel. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Efferil hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He bought a longsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 15000 gp. Citrine (20 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Rose (20 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Rose (20 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.