Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. She worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Optimist, Extrovert. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and blue pants. He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. His gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly ceremonial daggers and daggers. Her brass crest is singed and shortened. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black vest and prefers green and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She keeps her white crest in a pixie cut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nuthra studied abroad. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Alberich was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears an entirely black suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her crest is white and very short. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. 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: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is white and curly. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Seraphina was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp).

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She carries with her a set of axes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She has shaved her head bald. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in the south to a Body Guard, Meriele learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a black cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She keeps her brass crest in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40 gp. Iolite (30 gp).