Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 3000 cp. Sard (60 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has silver crest. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a dyer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 40 pp. Aquamarine (400 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is silver and curly. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Mâku was born with his father's beautiful face. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (120 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His dark red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He hates illithids. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Sammal hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

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 pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 140 gp. White pearl (50 gp). Zircon (40 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. 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 swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. Abad enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Abad 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 Abad. Being a Blacksmith 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: 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; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

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 is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Jelenneth hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Jelenneth alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: 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. He carries with him a set of spears, each one with a opal on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His scarlet crest is long and unkept. His eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pijjirik grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is wearing a long, green cloak. She has dyed her greying rusty crest a little too much giving a sharp rusty color. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. Some 9 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Tatyan never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: In love, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.