Description: 2'8" and muscular, this southern woman is renowned for her bright red dresses and hats. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. The war was a terrible time for her, and Stacee does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Carpenter for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears long strands of amethyst and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In her 15th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and she is content

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair, while still mostly blue, has prominent grey streaks. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Passionate, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 250 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). Amber (110 gp). 4 Antitoxin.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His ears are large.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He carries with him a set of pickaxes on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His black hair is braided into rings. His skin is flawless and his blue eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Keth enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born in the south. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears baggy black pantaloons and a white scarf and is in decent physical shape. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her black eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family When Verin reached her early adolescence her Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp. Hematite (14 gp).

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is a great chef.

History: He is a Maurezhi in disguise. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Smokesticks.

Description: This man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a violet coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He wears his silver hair up. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: The child of a Ruler, who enjoyed hunting, Jabbie was taken on many hunting expeditions. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 14000 cp.