Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Architect arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greataxe.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears a red armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. He has a hunchback. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Ortegar lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents were killed by orcs in a raid when he was still a young child. The orcs captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 40 gp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Amber (70 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a grey collared shirt and red skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small grey clips. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Sarah was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Servant for the past few years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 cp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: 2'10" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her white hair is wavy and long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This southern woman dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Justice, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 60 pp. Red spinel (80 gp). Coral (80 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 her god.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, 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: Many giants want her driven away; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears skinny pants and wears a blue and grey robe with the hood down. She has shaved her head bald. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She got into the Tailor business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Jade (60 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ella grew up listening to her mother's many stories. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Ella never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 sp.