Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. Her golden hair is well kept. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Extrovert. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her white crest is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 130 gp. Banded agate (5 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She has slicked back black hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Murgen was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. 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 Shepherd. She struck the Shepherd job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Persistence. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 100 gp. Jade (150 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A 5'1" southern woman, she is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Now she works as a painting tutor during her time off.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Professionalism, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She carries with her a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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 feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a blue shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is blonde and very short. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying east to reunite his family. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 800 sp. Jet (80 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Rosalind hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Rosalind was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Joker, Persistence, Gifted. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears an entirely brown suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Smoking was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Fortune-teller. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: 2'11" and muscular, this northern woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. She has shaved her head bald. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.