Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She has styled her black crest well, parting it to the right. 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 is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the south. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1000 cp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Nature. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. She wears her chestnut hair down. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 3'4" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Zook has worked very hard to control his curse. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This eastern woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Giselle was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He keeps his bronze crest in a flapper bob. His eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 6000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this western woman dresses like a well dressed Architect does. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She got into the Architect business at a young age. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Architect. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and carries spears. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His eyes are amber.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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. Arannis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a black small hat and black clothes. He wears his rusty crest up. He wears an eyepatch.

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 is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dragonborns.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to reunite with his absent father

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family, Military. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 cp. Amber (160 gp).