Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Meriele and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'9" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Richard was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barrister for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 130 gp. Lapis lazuli (4 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is dark but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Doctor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is portly but not overly obese. He has moderate length dark red hair. This black eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Map Maker. He has worked as a Map Maker like his father before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears yellow leather gloves, a yellow jacket, and tight pants. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Vanuath speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Vanuath was born the youngest of three triplets. Vanuath was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Shipwright. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has styled his black hair well, parting it to the left. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Theobald was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Herbalist. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A 6'2" western woman, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tiefling companion (her 'brother'). She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, grey shirt, and white tie. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Neega was raised in a hard working conservative environment. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 30 gp.