Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 3000 cp. Silver pearl (150 gp).

Description: He wears a grey shirt with thin white vertical stripes and black pants. He has wavy silver hair. He has a tattooed face.

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 uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and to be a stylist again

Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Feng lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Marshal and was forced into it by his family.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she likes to wear white tank tops with green skirt. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with singing. She constantly tries to fill her life with singing. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His black hair is cut short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

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. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He wears a black costume with the symbols of his god on his torso. He has dark red hair. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a Dyer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Abad hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Dyer. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to gnolls.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 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. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His first spouse was a Navigator, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her white hair is braided into rings. She is baby faced.

Personality: Makaria speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Makaria was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).