Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She is physically well-built. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born into a rich family. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. After a long history of fighting, Cloud and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To pay off her debts.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She wears a colorful flower in her orange fur. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Addict, Shy, Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with Stetson hat. Her cinnamon fur is singed and shortened. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has worked as a Blacksmith like her father before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs, and is pretty ugly. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. Her white eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Prosperine hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He wears a black armored body suit, with a simple tan line shooting up and back down. His blue crest is unkempt and raggedy. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Hirrathak was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hirrathak 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. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Spice Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Spice Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She wears a red shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and black pants. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Armorer. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a Architect, her mother struggled to pay the bills. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 9 years.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tattered old clothes. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Aldous alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.