Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her white hair is still thick. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Shamil was born with her father's beautiful face. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shamil 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 370 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: William is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: William was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job, Family, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Riardon speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Riardon was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Riardon decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is wearing a long, black cloak. Her brown hair is long and unkept. Her black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She is a Yochlol in disguise. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. Iolite (80 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she tends to wear a green poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has done her best to style her black crest to look like a famous performer. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Arava enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Arava grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 200 gp. White pearl (50 gp). Rose (50 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his broad tan hat.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: This light-skinned male wears a tan collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 40 gp. Red garnet (150 gp).

Description: She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with black slacks. She is portly but not overly obese. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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 was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Baker. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His black hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Naal liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Military, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 sp.