Description: This malnourished woman dresses like a well dressed Sellsword does. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 Sellsword. She has achieved small success as a Sellsword.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Poor, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 700 sp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She wears her silver hair up. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has wavy red fur. His eyes are copper and beady.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Hematite (14 gp).

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 80 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a green poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His hair is black and curly. His silver eyes peer out from beneath his small green hat.

Personality: Astar is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Astar grew up listening to his father's many stories. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Astar grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Astar. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman wears a green collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She has black eyes.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. Shax enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 sp. Onyx (30 gp).

Description: 4'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

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. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born to a Butcher, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: This light-skinned female is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is long and golden with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small tan clips. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Engraver. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ella does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born in the north to a Engraver, Ella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Sellsword again; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 90 gp.