Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She usually wears her grey robe and has her whip always slung over her shoulder. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a Fletcher first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying north to reunite her family. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Fletcher for the past few years.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 50 gp. Red spinel (140 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he prefers to wear flannel. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Flogg alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Flogg was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her golden hair is cut short. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Animal Trainer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Ida lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Sculptor they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Animal Trainer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her trident with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. Adam enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Impulsive, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Holy water.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Ida lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 120 gp. Azurite (8 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His silver hair is matted, messy, and big. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes., and she perpetually has her quarterstaff ready. Her white hair is cut short. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Adelaide was born with her mother's beautiful face. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Dwarven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dwarven doctor. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Dwarven compassion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 90 gp.