Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She carries with her a set of sickles on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 sp. Golden pearl (120 gp). 7 Acid flasks.

Description: 3'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His hair is black and very short. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a scimitar on her belt. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 80 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp).

Description: He wears a red collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a yellow scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born in the north. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Spice Merchant they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Fisher, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears bulky green painted plate armor and is in decent physical shape. Her black hair is braided into rings. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 3'2" and wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior and is in decent physical shape. His dark red hair is still thick. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered south to less war torn lands. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Forgetful, Mundane, PTSD. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Eye agate (11 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has green eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Vondal abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature axe.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a black coat with white slacks. Her hair is short and white. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Arara lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 40 gp.