Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is white and curly. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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, Torgga is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 50 gp. Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Varis lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an entirely tan suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has silver hair. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of a Slave Trader, who enjoyed hunting, Peren was taken on many hunting expeditions. A freak accident while working with his Slave Trader mother left him crippled. He has achieved small success as a Dilettante.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'0" and muscular, this southern man wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His silver hair is long and unkept. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Sellsword. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the south to a Sellsword, Alex learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Violet garnet (900 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Banded agate (11 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has wavy silver crest. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: The child of a Seamstress, who enjoyed hunting, Gorbundus was taken on many hunting expeditions. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gorbundus grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gorbundus. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shoemaker and was forced into it by his family; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he likes to wear black tank tops with tan pants. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Being a Bookbinder kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Slave, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born into a rich family. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is violet, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Miner mother left her crippled. 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 currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

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

Description: This malnourished woman wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Nella hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Through the years after Nella was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Nella's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Nella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.