Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has styled his blue hair well, parting it to the left. His ears are large.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Bathin hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Miner. She carries with her a set of greatswords, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Miner like her mother before her.

Motivation: To be a Actor again; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Tharivol lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. One day when Tharivol was young, his father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his father dropped to the ground dead. His father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Tharivol was heart-stricken from the event, and his mother started working long hours to provde for them. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. Tharivol enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Being a Engraver kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her red hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished warhammer as well. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. He has blue crest. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Vrondiss is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Vrondiss was born with his mother's beautiful face. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Spice Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Spice Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered south to less war torn lands. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears an entirely grey suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Morkral was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Now he works as a writing tutor during his time off.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.