Description: Standing 5'0", this woman wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Valanthe's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 sp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a mace, but if one is not available she will default to her nunchaku. Her crest, while still mostly gold, has prominent grey streaks. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When Kava reached her early adolescence her Dragonborn father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a grey coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has styled his silver hair well, parting it to the right. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Interpreter arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Richard never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a violet poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. In her youth she was a Ploughman, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Gifted from a young age, Andry studied abroad. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

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 comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 40 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is light but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. A friendly and beautiful Half-Orc, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Through the years after Rûg was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Rûg's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 sp. Pink pearl (40 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Scribe. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic, Extrovert, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears blue trousers with brown and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Stableman like her father before her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Half-Plate.