Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to giants.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. She has done her best to style her white hair to look like a famous performer. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 110 gp. Amber (100 gp).

Description: This man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Rolf grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. After months of barely getting by, Rolf managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 10000 cp. Tourmaline (100 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Ella was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This light-skinned male wears an entirely brown suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Butcher who has hired him part-time. A true patriot, Heward would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Heward hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her blue hair is still thick. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Criella wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a crossbow on her belt. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length white fur. Her yellow eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born to a Body Guard, her father struggled to pay the bills. In her youth she was a Body Guard, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. Recently the stress of being a Server has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She carries with her a set of daggers, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Claira was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 320 gp. 2 Thunderstones.