Description: This woman is renowned for her bright yellow dresses and hats. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her left hand. She wears her golden hair up. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and many brigands want her driven away

Flaws: Addict, Lazy, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 2'8". She sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her head has been shaved. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Pennie enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Pennie hails from a village terrorized by giants. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Pennie has worked very hard to control her curse. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Pennie was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 gp. Deep green spinel (150 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Jasper (80 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a green scarf. He sports a flattop hair cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Spy. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, tan shirt, and brown tie. Her hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Callie grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

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 always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and many giants want her driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. His fur is cut close to his head. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Bookbinder arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a red suit, brown shirt, and grey tie. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Tyna was born the youngest of three triplets. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Debt. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She likes to wear blue tank tops with white skirt. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Luthra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and someone believes her a fraud

Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 sp.