Description: This tall, slender woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sai with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has slicked back silver hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. 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, Elama is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a hunchback. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She got into the Ruler business at a young age. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Sporting a silver mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. Now she works as a painting tutor during her time off.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man wears a blue shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her blonde hair is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Jade (70 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears bulky black painted plate armor. Her blue hair is thinning but still full. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Unemployed.

Motivation: To be a Sage again; and she is greedy

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Slave, Job, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has moderate length brown hair. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Joan took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor she uses now. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mortician and was forced into it by her family; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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 was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Erevan was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Erevan's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Erevan and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is physically well-built. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 50 pp.