Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. This green eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

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 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 has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'4". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His tied-back hair is black. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is a Apothecary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. He tends to his Apothecary job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This man wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the right. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Anselm lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Doctor, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her black hair is cut short. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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, Jane is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she has a crush on the local farmer

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears dull black sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed monstrous two handed axe, just in case. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He wears baggy white pantaloons and a blue scarf. He carries a battered lance and tarnished shield as well. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the west to a Courier, Ghâm learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A gifted student he started as a Cook, but he got bored and became a Courier. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ghâm fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 sp. Blue quartz (15 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'10". He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and his gloved hand is found clutching a sickle. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has achieved small success as a Sailor.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her warhammer with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Conrad hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.