Description: A 5'10" southern woman, she wears baggy grey pantaloons and a pastel scarf. She has wavy golden hair. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She bought a rapier and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her halberd with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 53. 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. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Nora 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. Nora decided she wanted neither the life of her father 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. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'1". She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She wears her chestnut hair down. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears suspenders and violet workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'9" when asserting himself. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born in the north. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He struck the Barrister job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a violet costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 2700 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her half smiles and copper eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. 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. Aura 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; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a black deerstalker hat and black clothes, and is pretty ugly. His green crest is lengthy. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He tends to his Shepherd job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She wears baggy red pantaloons and a pastel scarf. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Jo is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Jo was born with her father's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Ideals: Pacifist, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Tieflings in Merihim's homeland. Merihim decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 10 pp.