Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Butcher. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shortspears and bastard swords. Her silver crest is braided into rings. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born in the west to a Butcher, Hethress learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Hethress was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Butcher. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Butcher and was forced into it by her family; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Religious, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 cp. A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a long, brown cloak. With wild red hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 110 gp. Star rose quartz (50 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a black costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her black hair is wavy and long. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born in the west. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Mercenary. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Passionate, Joker. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 140 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 an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Cecily is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. As a very small child her family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. Her mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect her and cast a teleportation spell that whisked her away. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly warhammers and kukris. She wears a colorful flower in her white fur. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Hlin enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 60 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (60 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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. Tervaround was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Interpreter. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is content; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she likes to wear white tank tops with black skirt. Her silver hair is well kept. Her ears are large.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is an amazing painter.

History: Blossom hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (80 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She has a hunchback. Her chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. 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 inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. 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 get a good night's sleep; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Shy, Disease. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 sp.