Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shield with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. Her brass crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her broad green hat.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Gesrethe has worked very hard to control her curse. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Abalaba was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

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

Ideals: Justice, Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are black.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She keeps her beige fur in a pixie cut. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Trail is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. 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. Trail fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 gp. Blue star sapphire (500 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. 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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His hair is red and very short. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, In love. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her white hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her 14th 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 left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Terse, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: This man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and sports empty pouches on his belt. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He bought a warhammer and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he's in love

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 gp.