Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her feathered grey hat.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Elysande was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. A gifted student she started as a Animal Trainer, but she got bored and became a Bellfounder. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Animal Trainer again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it, and is pretty ugly. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Akmen grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head, and carries halberds. With bright red hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Nora was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the west were limited. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. 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. His black crest is braided into rings. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature axe.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a shield on his belt. His red hair is thinning but still full. His white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Euron fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is content

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 28000 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. She wears her blonde hair up. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Jasmine was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. A freak accident while working with her Cartwright father left her crippled. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To be a Cartwright again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 40 gp. White pearl (90 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. After coming to the age of reason, Margery took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.