Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with pastel slacks. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Deep green spinel (70 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greataxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her red hair down. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Masseuse

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

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. The war was a terrible time for him, and Theriatis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She stands about 4'8" and prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her small blue hat.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is an amazing painter.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1 Average lock.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His blue hair is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant white.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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

Flaws: Lazy, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Standing 5'8", this man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

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 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: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Mercenary for hire.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 700 sp. Iolite (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 3'6" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Dabbledob hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He dresses like a well dressed Fletcher does. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gifted student he started as a Blacksmith, but he got bored and became a Fletcher. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears long strands of aquamarine and short yellow dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He wears a colorful flower in his auburn hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is obsessed with his god.

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. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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 compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 110 gp.