Description: She is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. She wears a tan collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She has a hunchback. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Birel is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Gimgen liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. He wears his red hair down. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bounty Hunter. He struck the Bounty Hunter job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Flaws: Addict, Mundane, Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants, she is not a threatening figure. Her silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Beatrice lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a black vest and prefers pastel and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her dark red hair is lengthy. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Priest who has hired her part-time. The war was a terrible time for her, and Nemeia does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Nemeia has worked very hard to control her curse. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An older man who wears dark leathers with embroidery, he is not a threatening figure. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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 is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. He is physically well-built. His dark red hair is thinning but still full. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines silver.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

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 always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He tends to his Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. With bright brown hair. 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: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp. Brown-green garnet (90 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a black vest and prefers white and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has no hair. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 330 gp.