Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with yellow lining and desert motifs, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is brown and very short. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a Healer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. A freak accident while working with her Farmer mother left her crippled. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To be a Farmer again; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has wavy red hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She receives visions of the future at random moments

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 helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Bookbinder like her father before her.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the left. Her black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Bryseis alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

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

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He wears a simple tan robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a Barrister, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Uthemar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is silver and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Roland was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Slave Trader and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Slave Trader.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'6" when asserting herself. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in the north. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He stands about 6'6" and wears a robe, a symbol of death around his neck, and a longsword on his belt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are a pleasant white.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pelaios fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 400 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (40 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (160 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a black shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, and a wedding ring on his left hand. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. He is baby faced.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his youth he was a Scribe, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger sister on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Red spinel (130 gp).