Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly swords and flails. Her rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

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. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: She sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Merchant but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older man who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, he is not a threatening figure. He has dyed his greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. He is baby faced.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and carries swords. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Biri fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His blue hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. He is baby faced.

Personality: Merihim hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Merihim took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up glaive and armor he uses now. He bought a glaive and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a red vest and prefers brown and tan shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. 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. Calcitro fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Guard

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

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She wears just a black suit. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She hates goblins. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents were killed by goblins in a raid when she was still a young child. The goblins captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Azurite (10 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His auburn hair is braided into rings. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is baby faced.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Eiravel is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Scribe and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.