Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Ella liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he likes to wear brown tank tops with grey pants. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this northern woman wears baggy grey pantaloons and a white scarf. She has wavy golden hair. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: The child of a Actor, who enjoyed hunting, Herleva was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Herleva grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Herleva. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; 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: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is cut close to her head. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Callybon will drive conversation. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with her Miller father left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Ahlyssa was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ahlyssa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a grey wide-brimmed hat and grey clothes. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His ears are large.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Painter. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born in the north to a Painter, Erias learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Being a Painter 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's looking for his big break; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is short and chestnut. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Mentor, In love. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern woman wears suspenders and yellow workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her white hair is still thick. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her feathered yellow hat.

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. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Kairon was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.