Description: An older woman who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, she is not a threatening figure. Her white fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a Butcher, her father struggled to pay the bills. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She keeps her long bronze crest kept up in a rat tail. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her top green hat.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her first spouse was a Glassblower, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a long, blue cloak. His auburn hair is heavily combed to the left. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She stands about 4'7" and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Aline has worked very hard to control her curse. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He very much looks the part of a Dyer. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Osco was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears long strands of opal and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His black fur is long and unkept. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Nimble hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nimble grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his trident with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered kukri and tarnished trident as well. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. Through the years after Akmen was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Akmen's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He bought a trident and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Obsidian (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her hair is auburn and very short. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. The war was a terrible time for her, and Aline does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Butcher for hire.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Butcher responsibilities is difficult; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 sp. Golden pearl (50 gp).