Description: This northern woman wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and balancing her hectic life and new mercenary responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 6000 sp. Pink pearl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Helja was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Helja decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Has a crush, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 5'5", this woman typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. Her dark red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her ears are large.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Markosian has worked very hard to control her curse. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Banker

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

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged woman dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time and is in decent physical shape. Her tied-back hair is auburn. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Tordrid took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up ceremonial dagger and armor she uses now. 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. Tordrid 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; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Justice, Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is golden and curly. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Cook business.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This eastern man is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She stands about 6'2" and wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 2 years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'7" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. She has black crest. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She got into the Sage business at a young age. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Opinionated, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this southern woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her scarlet crest is smooth and relatively long. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. Rose (80 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp).