Description: This woman is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is short and black. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Paela grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and to be a spy again

Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Red spinel (70 gp).

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze, and carries scimitars. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

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. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His copper crest is still thick. He is baby faced.

Personality: He hates Dragonborns with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Locksmith mother left him crippled. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her bronze crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To protect her home; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Bonds: Slave, Guardian. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His fur is short and lavender. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries a battered bow and tarnished warhammer as well. His fur is short and lavender. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. Black pearl (200 gp).

Description: An older man who wears silk and lounges about seductively, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his broad white hat.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

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. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. She typically wears tan cloth garments or leather armor. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Interpreter arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 pp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (30 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull yellow iron scale mail. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has blue eyes and a grey hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 230 gp.