Description: She wears baggy white pantaloons and a red scarf. She is physically well-built. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length red hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 Engraver. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. She has a hunchback. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Painter but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born in the west. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (130 gp).

Description: This woman wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is violet, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Orla enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Orla was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Because her mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, brigands burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her father from journeying west to reunite her family. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a green shirt with thin red vertical stripes and violet pants. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Akta hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and yellow pants. Her crest is red and curly. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Quespa 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. When Quespa reached her early adolescence her Dragonborn father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her long chestnut hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Priest for the past few years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available he will default to his whip. He has shaved his head bald. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Nutae is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Glassblower arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her ears are large.

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 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: She was born in the north. Through the years after Caelynn was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Caelynn's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She struck the Cook job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new cook responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. Amethyst (50 gp). Jade (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her golden hair down. Her eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She got into the Interpreter business at a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 800 sp. Hematite (14 gp).