Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses like a well dressed Adventurer does. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Mary was born in the east. 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 Adventurer. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 5'2". He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shortbow. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Cimer enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and he perpetually has his scythe ready. He has done his best to style his copper crest to look like a famous performer. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: Heskan wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heskan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Insomniac, Secretive, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. 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 Seamstress. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Sybil never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich, In love, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. With wild red hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She hates Dwarves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Kilia was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Mason. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Racist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her head has been shaved. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: Balifra 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: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a white and green robe with the hood down. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 49. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. 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: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Moss agate (9 gp).