Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Citrine (30 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'0". She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small grey clips. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by goblins. Jarana was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: He usually wears his red robe and has his longsword always slung over his shoulder. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Hamil was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 330 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is dark red and very short. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Paymon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 40 gp. Golden pearl (140 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: She is a Map Maker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the east were limited. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bilga studied abroad. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. She has gray eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Kristryd abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kristryd fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 16000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item.