Description: She wears a tan armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and daggers. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Shava hails from a village terrorized by giants. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shava grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Shava. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20 gp. Jet (140 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is short and chestnut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his yellow fur down. His eyes are likewise copper. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He 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. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her blonde hair is long and unkept. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. 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 comes from a rich southern family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Elama lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 west. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bricklayer. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Euron was born the youngest of three triplets. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Euron has worked very hard to control his curse. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To unite with his brother.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature axe.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is her passion.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 gp. White pearl (140 gp).

Description: Standing 6'5", this woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 15. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She bought a bow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Sage

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

Possessions: 60 gp. Black star sapphire (400 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp).

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her brown fur is braided into rings. She is baby faced.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born into a rich family. She moved out north to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 cp.