Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She has dyed her greying silver crest a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Farideh hails from a village terrorized by brigands. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She bought a hammer and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This northern woman very much looks the part of a Layabout. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born in the north. A gifted student she started as a Hunter, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has moderate length golden hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Pyntle lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: 5'9" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears long strands of amethyst and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. He has gray eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Roland isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mercenary profession.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy; and expand his business

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 50 gp. Lapis lazuli (10 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He likes to wear brown tank tops with green pants. His golden hair is braided into rings. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Baern will drive conversation. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Baern was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). In the meantime he has taken over work as a Sailor and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 60 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her fur, while still mostly orange, has prominent grey streaks. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She is a Mortician first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is obsessed with her god.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Spear was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Spear decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Immigrant, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is a Engraver first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Maiathah was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She found a children's book about a Elf Sorcerer 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. 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: She desires power and/or immortality; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a blue vest and prefers white and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Dayereth was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

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

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, In love. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Holy water.