Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has a very tight haircut. This hazel eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Jo lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Jo took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Red spinel (150 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Eberdeb is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His bronze crest is still thick. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 gp. Rock crystal (60 gp). Jade (80 gp).

Description: She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She has wavy auburn hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Expand her business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Passionate, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, and is pretty ugly. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. He has amber eyes and a brown hat with a white feather.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 130 gp. Jet (130 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Amber (130 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An older woman who wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, she is not a threatening figure. Her fur is cut close to her head. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She uses divination through singing.

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 was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and balancing her hectic life and new engraver responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She usually wears her red robe and has her lance always slung over her shoulder. Her golden hair is lengthy. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Jo was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and shields. She has dyed her greying dark red hair a little too much giving a sharp dark red color. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. The war was a terrible time for her, and Mastema does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When Mastema reached her early adolescence her Tiefling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Secretive, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Buckler.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a fancy blue suit. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Servant father left him crippled. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Stableman for the past few years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and expand his business

Flaws: Depressed, Impulsive, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 100 gp.