Description: 5'9" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dragonborn companion (her 'brother'). Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 20 gp. Brown-green garnet (80 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His tied-back hair is white. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. One day when Bernard was young, his father was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his father dropped to the ground dead. His father had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Bernard was heart-stricken from the event, and his mother started working long hours to provde for them. He has taken up work as a Masseuse and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, PTSD, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. Banded agate (8 gp). 1 Breastplate.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her purple hair is braided into rings. Her black eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. Some 7 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Orianna never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is portly but not overly obese. His bronze crest is smooth and relatively long. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born at the edge of vast forest. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shedinn 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 Shedinn. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp).

Description: Standing 4'7", this woman has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe. She has styled her blonde hair well, parting it to the left. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Revenge; and to reunite with her absent mother

Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, brown cloak, and carries scythes. His red fur is braided into rings. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has moderate length cinnamon fur. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Half-Elven compassion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Hedonist. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull tan iron scale mail. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Mayor they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Scribe, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Amber (150 gp).

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She is a Maurezhi in disguise. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 140 gp. Chrysoberyl (110 gp).