Description: This malnourished woman wears silk and lounges about seductively. With wild auburn hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Helja abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length orange fur. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shepherd business.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Being a Shepherd kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with brown slacks. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 370 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has brown eyes.

Personality: Rinn wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortspears and longswords. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. 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 is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with brown slacks. She wears her bronze crest down. She has red eyes and a black hat with a blue feather.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Kava will drive conversation. She takes great joy in being the best Courier in town.

History: She was born into a rich family. She worked as a nervous Courier and found it very stressful. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with pastel colored cloaks and clothing. She has wavy brown fur. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bricklayer. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Cockaby lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: She wears dull tan sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. She carries a battered lance and tarnished kukri as well. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Born in the south to a Assassin, Andraste learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She's also a talented Animal Trainer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Just what you see.