Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her hair is short and blonde. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Kathra was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. After a long history of fighting, Kathra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Holy water.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears brown trousers with grey and violet striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His head has been shaved. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Aldous lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has white crest. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Ildrex was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Slave, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He tends to wear a large white jacket. His tied-back hair is auburn. 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 erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This dark-skinned male is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Wiggan's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her spear with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Heather is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. Red garnet (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His black fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. 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 a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Weaver, but he was a colossal failure. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: 5'6" and muscular, this northern man wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Roland abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.