Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Dara is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing poetry.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy blonde stubble. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a hunchback. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her cinnamon fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her yellow eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: Emerald is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature dagger.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Family, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the east to a Animal Trainer, Lewis learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She carries a battered mace and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her red fur is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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: Born to a Apothecary, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her scarlet crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a Soapmaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing her hectic life and new soapmaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 3000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'2" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. 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: She was born in the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Giselle 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 Giselle. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Silk rope.