Description: This dark-skinned female is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Beggar but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a Miner, her mother struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a hunchback. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To be a Butcher again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears tattered old clothes. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has blue eyes and a black hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Tawar was born the youngest of three triplets. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 160 gp. Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes. His hair is cut close to his head. He has green eyes and a white hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Braak was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears tattered old clothes. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His yellow eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Windy was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Servant. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Windy fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 20000 cp. Blue sapphire (400 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 blue vest and prefers yellow and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed blue hat.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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: Gifted from a young age, Panana studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, and he perpetually has his morningstar ready. His hair is brown and very short. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, Chad took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a brown shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and yellow pants. Her cinnamon fur is knotted and matted. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Flame was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Flame was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. After a long history of fighting, Flame and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears suspenders and yellow workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: Arnold speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 sp. Chalcedony (70 gp). 1 Banded mail.