Description: This late middle aged woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat and is in decent physical shape. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: To protect her home; and a strong sense of loyalty to dwarven people

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 140 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull violet iron scale mail. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her ears are large.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Shivering was born the youngest of three triplets. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Elves. Her skin is light but she possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. She wears a tan costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her hair is red and curly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Mialee was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and balancing her hectic life and new healer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a tan coat with grey slacks. Her black hair is wavy and long. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Vorka was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. She has worked as a Body Guard like her mother before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Job, Family, Debt. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull grey iron scale mail, and is pretty ugly. Her brown fur is lengthy. Her copper eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Kite speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Kite was born on a far eastern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Sage. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. She wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. She has a hunchback. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Lidda was born the youngest of three triplets. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Brewer and was forced into it by her family; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around his neck, and a dagger on his belt. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Randal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Standing 4'1", this woman wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She is a Crown-heir first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Dwarves.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on her belt. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown fur. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Just what you see.