Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Bûbol lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He wears his brown hair down. He has a dull look in his white eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 260 gp.

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 a tan tunic with violet highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is short and brown. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Irann was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Animal Trainer. She struck the Animal Trainer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Terse, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 800 sp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: 6'4" and muscular, this eastern man is wearing a tight grey one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Balimaar hails from a village terrorized by illithids. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. 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: Verin was born the youngest of three triplets. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and doesn't want to be a map maker and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Family, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is dressed in earthy colors with a white and brown handkerchief worn on her right side. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She got into the Masseuse business at a young age. 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. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. 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 into a rich family. A gifted student she started as a Mortician, but she got bored and became a Servant. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This northern woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

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

Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Red spinel (110 gp).