Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She has shaved her head bald. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is well dressed, constantly wearing a grey suit, tan shirt, and blue tie. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She worked as a nervous Blacksmith and found it very stressful. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by unlife.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Crowbar.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. She carries with her a set of shortbows, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed red hat.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Mason, but she got bored and became a Painter. 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. Nora fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An older man who wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, he is not a threatening figure. His blonde hair is lengthy. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Veit abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and black handkerchief worn on her right side. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Tanner and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail. His copper crest has been sun bleached extensively. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Locksmith. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Donaar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Locksmith. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Stylist again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. She usually wears her yellow robe and has her longbow always slung over her shoulder. She has a hunchback. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His beige fur is braided into rings. His yellow eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lone grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 gp. Rose (30 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a blue costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Faral 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 Faral. Being a Soapmaker kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 4000 cp.