Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gold eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 60 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: 3'8" and muscular, this western man wears tan leather gloves, a tan jacket, and tight pants. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Fibblestib was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: 6'0" and muscular, this southern woman wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is black and very short. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Body Guard, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 17000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He keeps his red hair in a pixie cut. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Smoky quartz (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears long strands of emerald and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has no hair. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. 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: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 900 sp. Red-brown spinel (90 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a yellow shirt with thin black vertical stripes and red pants. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Naill's homeland. Naill decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and 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: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears dull grey sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed flail, just in case. He has shaved his head bald. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his small grey hat.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Oskar has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 50 gp. Silver pearl (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a blue Stetson hat and blue clothes. He wears his red hair down. He has brown eyes and a blue hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is auburn and curly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, In love, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.