Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has moderate length black hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Glassblower. Her blue crest is braided into rings. 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 intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Hethress lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and 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

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 150 gp. Zircon (80 gp).

Description: This man wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with red colored cloaks and clothing. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. Her white fur is still thick. She has a tattooed face.

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. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Silent was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized pastel coat. Her gray fur is matted, messy, and big. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Flame was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Smokesticks.