Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Balifra was born with her father's beautiful face. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Bonds: In love, Religious, Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in the west to a Ploughman, Rolen learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rolen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 150 gp. Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is baby faced.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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. Engong fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'5" when asserting herself. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Gifted from a young age, Shava studied abroad. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To pay off her debts.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Guardian, Debt. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: She wears a white collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: 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: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her black crest is long and unkept. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born in a small desert village. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 40 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp).

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this western man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He keeps his long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Jasper (50 gp). 4 Thunderstones.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Hadwisa 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 guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Sensitive, Shy, Secretive, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a brown shirt, with a white mid length shorts with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is golden and very short. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. He tends to his Scribe job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 340 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).