Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. She is an epitome of beauty. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Finellen was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: A 6'0" eastern man, he wears a green shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and black pants. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Therai abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Emotional, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

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. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature falchion.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and red handkerchief worn on her right side. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Caramip lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He is a husky man, who is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ulblyn 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 Ulblyn. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 30 pp. 2 Thunderstones. 6 Acid flasks.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a red shirt with thin black vertical stripes and brown pants, and is pretty ugly. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Darrow was born the youngest of three triplets. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He became a Architect soon after.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Violet garnet (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'9". He wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to half-orc people

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her shortspear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ida 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; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Nature, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Spice Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing her hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Rock crystal (70 gp).