Description: A middle-aged woman, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, and is pretty ugly. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears baggy black pantaloons and a white scarf. She has shaved her head bald. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Insomniac, Greedy, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: Emeny hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Emeny hails from a village terrorized by brigands. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature falchion.

Motivation: She wants revenge against brigands; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He wears a simple blue robe with tan stripes complete with hood. He carries with him a set of kukris on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His hair is long and golden with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Burgell was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Hunter for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 1700 sp. Rose (30 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. He is physically well-built. His golden hair is still thick. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She carries with her a set of monstrous two handed axes on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her white hair is still thick. Her blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Jarsali is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Sellsword arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jarsali fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a brown shirt, with a green mid length shorts with green tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Layabout. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's also a talented Sculptor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. She has wavy white hair. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She is a Doppelganger in disguise. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. During her travels, Galiena and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Galiena discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Galiena fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Smokesticks.