Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She carries a battered halberd and tarnished shortspear as well. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Vorka lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her left hand. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: Emen is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Sage but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. 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 Sage. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the left. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Ilanis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and expand her business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he likes to wear white tank tops with tan pants. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mozfel grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Mozfel took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up axe and armor he uses now. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 5000 cp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His tied-back hair is white. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Elaim was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Elaim decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He carries with him a set of shortspears on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His hair is black and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gerbo will drive conversation. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gerbo grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gerbo. 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; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a grey shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and pastel pants. He wears his silver hair up. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Travok's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears a colorful flower in his bronze crest. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Rhogar took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. 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. Rhogar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 6000 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 wears bulky violet painted plate armor. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Suhnae's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Suhnae was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.