Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a simple red robe with grey stripes complete with hood. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, marred by sweets. He wears his white hair down. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Vondal was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears a pastel shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He carries with him a set of sais on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His red fur is heavily combed to the right. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He takes great joy in being the best Fortune-teller in town.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. 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. Kite fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Fortune-teller responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 3'4". He wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shield, but if one is not available he will default to his rapier, and his gloved hand is found clutching a rapier. His hair is silver and curly. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to half-orc people

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Jet (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (70 gp). 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he very much looks the part of a Guard. He is bald on top and has large golden tufts of hair around his ears. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Oloric never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a violet shirt with thin white vertical stripes and green pants. She has wavy white hair. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Racist, Insane. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her dark red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her silver eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Orianna was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. Eye agate (16 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and he perpetually has his longsword ready. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her right hand. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length green crest. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Tatyan hails from a village terrorized by illithids. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Tourmaline (40 gp).