Description: She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, and carries pickaxes. Her black hair is lengthy. Her eyes are likewise silver. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

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. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 110 gp. Rose (60 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a fancy red suit. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Sailor arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 30 gp. Coral (110 gp).

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 300 gp. Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She prefers to wear flannel. Her white hair is singed and shortened. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. A gifted student she started as a Merchant, but she got bored and became a Apothecary. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Apothecary responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'2". She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a Miller, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Small steel mirror.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She carries a battered whip and tarnished axe as well. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Through the years after Katherine was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Katherine's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Katherine and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has styled his green crest well, parting it to the left. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. 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. Huru enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 30 gp.