Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Mayor. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has achieved small success as a Mayor.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and expand her business

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He usually wears his white robe and has his spear always slung over his shoulder. He has no hair. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She is a Performer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She got into the Performer business at a young age. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Performer.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is short and auburn. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sword.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 100 gp. 4 Acid flasks. 4 Holy water. 4 Acid flasks.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Hunter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Elf in existence. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She carries a battered pickaxe and tarnished quarterstaff as well. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is content; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear flannel. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Orla is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her first spouse was a Performer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: Trym hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. A true patriot, Trym would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, his father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Weaver hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Good lock.