Description: This late middle aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. He is baby faced.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: 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.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Ozyman hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'6" when asserting himself. His crest is short and gold. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Now he works as a painting tutor during his time off.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a black shirt, with a grey mid length skirt with grey tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her hair is brown and curly. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. 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: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Assassin arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2000 cp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'1". She wears a grey coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Helgret is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Barber. She became a Barber soon after.

Motivation: To be a Ruler again.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 4 Thunderstones.

Description: He wears long strands of aquamarine and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He carries with him a set of longbows on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His brown hair is still thick. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her gold crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'3". She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. Her head has been shaved. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Rosamund was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Healer again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Golden pearl (140 gp). 1 Crowbar.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length brown fur. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Elegant fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 320 gp.