Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has wavy black hair. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Volen is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in the north to a Adventurer, Volen learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Adventurer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Adventurer work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man is wearing a tight pastel one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His fur is brown, silky, and of moderate length. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the west were limited. He now mingles about in high society.

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

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 100 gp. Smoky quartz (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp).

Description: She wears a black costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. She is physically well-built. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a sage and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: Adrie is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is an amazing painter.

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 15th 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a black shirt, with a white mid length skirt with white tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her gold crest is smooth and relatively long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Raiann hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A freak accident while working with her Bowyer mother left her crippled. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Bowyer. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 4'2". She is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats, and her gloved hand is found clutching a greatsword. Her black hair is lengthy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. 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 to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. She struck the Body Guard job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp. Red garnet (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. 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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Hunter lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2600 sp. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Holy water.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'0". She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To protect her home; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This malnourished woman wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her brown hair is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. The war was a terrible time for her, and Melissa does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When Melissa reached her early adolescence her Human 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.