Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker white hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Nogu was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered south to less war torn lands. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 2'10" and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is short and blonde. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

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 invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She has dyed her greying red crest a little too much giving a sharp red color. Her gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Mishann has worked very hard to control her curse. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

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 obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Lazy. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has green eyes and a blue hat with a green feather.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Symma alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Revenge; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Ielenia was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Being a Fletcher 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 is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her dark red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She got into the Seamstress business at a young age. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Seamstress work with an outfit from a few towns over. Seamstress work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She became a Seamstress soon after.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 50 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear black clothing when she does not wear armor, and she perpetually has her longbow ready. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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 is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He wears a blue collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Zook hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's in love.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

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. 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 Stylist. He has achieved small success as a Stylist.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 3000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 3 Antitoxin.