Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Whurbin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has shaved her head bald. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her ears are large.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Arara was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Arara fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 150 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears long strands of amethyst and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She wears her golden hair down. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. 4 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. A friendly and beautiful Halfling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Rose lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs, and she perpetually has her club ready. Her crest is cut close to her head. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: Thava hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. 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: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Thava liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, tan shirt, and brown tie. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her red hair is still thick. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears professional attire. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Shepherd. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He's also a talented Armorer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2600 sp.