Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Ekk hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her arcane talents. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Revenge; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nurkara grew up listening to her father's many stories. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she prefers to wear flannel. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to unite with her brother

Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

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

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is physically well-built. His hair is short and golden. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a great chef.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears dull green sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed sai, just in case. She wears a colorful flower in her rusty crest. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her brown boots flare out at the collars. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Shivering was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a colorful flower in her beige fur. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are copper.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a great chef.

History: The child of a Merchant, who enjoyed hunting, Beast was taken on many hunting expeditions. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. She carries with her a set of spears on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She has shaved her head bald. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 130 gp.