Description: She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair is golden and curly. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Melissa was born with her father's beautiful face. Melissa 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. Melissa 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 left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Criminal record, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His brown hair is lengthy. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Sheggen lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a green coat with red slacks. His auburn hair is long and unkept. 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 shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears long strands of amethyst and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Sporting a golden mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 270 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, marred by sweets. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Healer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Susannah was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears bulky grey painted plate armor. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1 Simple lock.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'3" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, yellow shirt, and tan tie. Her red hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Valanthe hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Valanthe alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her brown hair is wavy and long. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has copper crest. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Painter business.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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 Painter. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: To be a Hunter again; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Passionate, Persistence, Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 sp.