Description: This woman is very fat, and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Mara speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Mara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has wavy golden hair. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She is a Deep Scion in disguise. She worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Hunter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. Murook enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Amber (60 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Justin hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Human conditions. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has green eyes and a yellow hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

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. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Alice alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His hair is short and brown. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his white eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Zephan is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Zephan was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Knight and was forced into it by his family.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned female likes to wear red tank tops with tan skirt. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She became a Animal Trainer soon after.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears tattered old clothes, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears his auburn hair down. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Cory never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a yellow collared shirt and blue skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She got into the Slave Trader business at a young age. A freak accident while working with her Tailor mother left her crippled. She's also a talented Tailor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 sp.