Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'3". She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and her gloved hand is found clutching a whip. She sports golden long hair. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Birel was born with her father's beautiful face. Birel was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. Being a Engraver kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Religious, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: 6'1" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Vepar embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born in a small plains village. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 130 gp. Peridot (40 gp).

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her spear with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. 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: Shava was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Bookbinder born in the past three hundred years. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the west were limited. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a barber again

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

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

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her tied-back hair is auburn. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 sp. White pearl (120 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple brown robe with red stripes complete with hood. Her fur is brown and curly. Her fierce yellow eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. In her 20th 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Eva was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is content

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Vondal grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dragonborn companion (his 'brother'). He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She wears bulky white painted plate armor. Her golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Dell is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born into a rich family. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 390 gp.