Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a tight violet one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born to a Brewer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Xanaphia fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Opinionated, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 sp. Chalcedony (50 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple tan robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His blonde hair is still thick. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He got into the Sage business at a young age. A gifted student he started as a Bather, but he got bored and became a Sage. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her crest is scarlet and curly. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is a great chef.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a blue collared shirt and green pants. He accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his broad blue hat.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Eldon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. This violet eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Jarsali was born with her father's beautiful face. When Jarsali reached her early adolescence her Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length gray fur. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Smoking took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up bastard sword and armor she uses now. She became a Carpenter soon after.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is tan, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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 to a pair of adventurers, Shava grew up listening to her father's many stories. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 4'10". She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat, and her gloved hand is found clutching a axe. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has blue eyes and a grey hat with a green feather.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Rosalind was born with her mother's beautiful face. 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 Bowyer. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and expand her business

Flaws: Cynical, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 600 sp. 2 Thunderstones.