Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has wavy red hair. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. She would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Arara took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up nunchaku and armor she uses now. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a brown shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and brown pants. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: Egelina is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. 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, Egelina is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Egelina hails from a village terrorized by drow. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Extrovert, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. She is physically well-built. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and seeks redemption

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (8 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He sports a flattop hair cut. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Map Maker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1900 sp. Jet (70 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Marastyr is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Mayor. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has worked as a Mayor like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to be a bellfounder again

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'1" when asserting himself. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Adelard was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Map Maker. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and 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

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He usually wears his brown robe and has his monstrous two handed axe always slung over his shoulder. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His yellow fur is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise copper. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.