Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a pastel coat with tan slacks. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and human compassion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'6" when asserting himself. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 18000 cp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She wears her silver hair up. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Whispers

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

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears an entirely white suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He receives visions of the future at random moments

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. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 150 gp. Iolite (80 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. She has dyed her greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a grey vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her grey boots flare out at the collars. Her hair is auburn and very short. 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 believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 20 pp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (110 gp). 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a tan shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and blue pants. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. 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 has taken up work as a Knight and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Nature, Poor, Debt. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His crest is short and silver. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Vrondiss has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Racist, Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp.