Description: This eastern woman is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She has wavy red hair. Her eyes are red.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Seere 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 Seere. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1000 sp. Pink pearl (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

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 has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Farmer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Farmer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He's also a talented Fisher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Bellfounder but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To be a Jeweler again; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist, Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

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. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. After a long history of fighting, Antinua and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a robe, a symbol of luck around her neck, and a hammer on her belt. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. A gifted student she started as a Fisher, but she got bored and became a Scribe. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering his clean studded leather. His gray fur is thinning but still full. His yellow unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Ethereal has worked very hard to control his curse. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Flaws: Disease, Greedy, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has no crest. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ildrex fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Light wooden shield.

Description: He dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a black coat with white slacks. He sports a flattop fur cut. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. The war was a terrible time for him, and River does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Shipwright father left him crippled. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.