Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. He has violet eyes and a black hat with a pastel feather.

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 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: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 4'7" southern woman, she wears a green vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her grey leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her green boots flare out at the collars. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: She wears a tan vest and prefers brown and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is portly but not overly obese. She has moderate length blonde hair. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born in the west to a Detective, Caramip learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She took after her father in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her father taught her to defend herself. When her father died while fighting dire rats, the young Caramip began to lead the lost caravan. She struck the Detective job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Detective responsibilities is difficult; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Aramil's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Aramil was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Layabout hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His tied-back hair is white. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Oloric liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Sorath speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in the west to a Doctor, Sorath learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Has a crush, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: An older woman who sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her golden hair down. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 sp. Amber (110 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Audhild was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 60 gp. Malachite (13 gp).