Description: This light-skinned female wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her tied-back hair is white. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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: Born to a Healer, her father struggled to pay the bills. Being born in the south, 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 south 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. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: He wears a green costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. He is portly but not overly obese. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Dilettante soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Acid flasks.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and yellow handkerchief worn on her right side. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Cartwright but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

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

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Ar-Baruk was born the youngest of three triplets. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, red shirt, and black tie. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: The child of a Priest, who enjoyed hunting, Mastema was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Bonds: Job, In love, Nature, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He keeps his long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Jade will drive conversation. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Jade was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Soapmaker and found it very stressful. He tends to his Soapmaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a dyer again

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her long rusty crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born in the south. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mercenary. She has achieved small success as a Mercenary.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a barrister again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fierce black eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with his god.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the north were limited. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He sports a flattop hair cut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Thorin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. After a long history of fighting, Thorin and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 50 gp.