Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

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. 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 Mercenary. She became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man wears a worn and beaten armor. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Navigator arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 3100 sp. Tourmaline (90 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. He has wavy silver hair. His ears are large.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Armorer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Tiefling companion (his 'brother'). He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Armorer and was forced into it by his family; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He bought a axe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Nature. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her brown hair is lengthy. Her black eyes peer out from beneath her feathered green hat.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Astaro fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His red hair is still thick. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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 son.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 sp. Amethyst (100 gp). Amber (100 gp). Jade (100 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is dressed in earthy colors with a white and yellow handkerchief worn on her left side. Her silver hair is wavy and long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She got into the Sage business at a young age. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, 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 hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Insane, Sensitive, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (60 gp).