Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

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 has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 20 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp). 4 Holy water.

Description: He stands about 6'7" and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has dyed his greying scarlet crest a little too much giving a sharp scarlet color. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Through the years after Direcris was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Direcris's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Direcris and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. This violet eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy, Fearful, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and black robe with the hood down. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born into a rich family. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small brown clips. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She got into the Roofer business at a young age. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She tends to her Roofer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a hand crossbow on his belt. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 cp. Golden pearl (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her bronze crest is braided into rings. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady red eyes.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Miner profession.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Farideh was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 cp.