Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Biri was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Slave, Military, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 cp. Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Phann hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical, Impeccable. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Courier

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: She wears a grey coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

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 a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She dropped out of school to support her sick father, and resented it. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and doesn't want to be a bowyer and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and is pretty ugly. Her white hair is heavily combed to the left. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Yvonne speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the north. After coming to the age of reason, Yvonne took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is long and brown with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small red clips. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: She got into the Doctor business at a young age. 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 Doctor. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional, Shy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His orange fur is matted, messy, and big. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 200 gp. Jasper (30 gp). Amber (90 gp). White pearl (90 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is dressed in a clean yellow cloak covering her clean studded leather. She carries with her a set of falchions on her belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Ilanis's homeland. Ilanis decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Navigator they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Courier, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her brass crest is still thick. 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 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. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He wears his blonde hair down. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gifted student he started as a Sailor, but he got bored and became a Sage. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 70 gp. Zircon (30 gp).