Description: This woman is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and pastel handkerchief worn on her right side, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her head has been shaved. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: Mardred is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: He wears a green coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon his head. He carries a battered morningstar and tarnished warhammer as well. He keeps his gold crest in a pixie cut. His red eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson green hat.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. The war was a terrible time for him, and Adrex does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Religious. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 sp. Obsidian (9 gp).

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She dresses like a well dressed Herbalist does. She has a very tight haircut. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

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 a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Elves.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Herbalist.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This woman loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born in the west to a Engraver, Nedda learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a roofer again

Ideals: Artistic, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 45000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and revenge

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a green coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Semyaza speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She is a Maurezhi in disguise. Semyaza was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Armorer. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'6". He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and his gloved hand is found clutching a bastard sword. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His skin is flawless and his amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a great chef.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This man has the majority of his body covered in plate, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His long green crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Gorbundus lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 5000 cp. Tourmaline (120 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'6". She sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. After coming to the age of reason, Sweet took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 200 sp. Bloodstone (50 gp).