Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Mara was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 cp. Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 4'7" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears an entirely blue suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Aelar 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 mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a white costume with the symbols of death on her torso. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. 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: Murook was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered music. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 600 sp. A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (60 gp). 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: She wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. She wears a broad hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Apothecary. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 260 gp.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears a fancy yellow dress. Her auburn hair is wavy and long. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A freak accident while working with his Butcher father left him crippled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a farmer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Jade (100 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her chestnut hair down. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 3000 cp. Amethyst (110 gp).

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. She has moderate length gold crest. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Gilkass is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Gilkass was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gilkass fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blonde hair is cut short. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Through the years after Rael was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Rael's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Rael and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Buckler.