Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her bow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her silver hair is still thick. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Gunnloda was born with her mother's beautiful face. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by lycanthropy.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 4'8" southern woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her monstrous two handed axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears large thick round spectacles.

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. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, In love. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 210 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This man stands a little under 3'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his red hair up. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'9". She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She sports chestnut long hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. 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: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He carries a battered crossbow and tarnished pickaxe as well. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Body Guard for hire.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 40 pp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Hematite (12 gp).

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She is portly but not overly obese. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her ears are large.

Personality: Irann wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a white costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Sporting a golden mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. The war was a terrible time for her, and Eida does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Terse, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her green crest is heavily combed to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: Biri was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 90 gp. Iolite (50 gp).

Description: She wears bulky green painted plate armor. She has white hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Manea grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her childhood dream was to be a Layabout, but she was a colossal failure. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 100 gp. Amber (90 gp).