Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her white hair is well kept. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. 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 always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Hugolina was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Hugolina decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a yellow scarf. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are brown and beady.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Sage business.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Uthemar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 400 sp. Moss agate (4 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears baggy tan pantaloons and a white scarf. He wears his black hair down. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She stands about 5'4" and is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Rosamund alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by illithids. Rosamund was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears white trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His hair is red and curly. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born in a small island village. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 20 pp. Freshwater pearl (7 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears bulky grey painted plate armor. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a Masseuse first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: To be a Miner again.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 5'4". He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and his gloved hand is found clutching a lance. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Born to a Priest, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Bonds: Nature, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He wears a green vest and prefers white and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his mace, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His hair is brown and very short. His ears are large.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Fortune-teller they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Adventurer, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 sp.