Description: She stands about 2'9" and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. After months of barely getting by, Eran managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'4". She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Priest. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Priest. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rieta fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this western woman wears a grey coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. 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 is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 50 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Portia grew up listening to her father's many stories. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and doesn't want to be a navigator and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greataxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the north. Aust was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Fletcher. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2 Thunderstones.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. She has golden hair. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. Being a Marshal kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His lavender fur is long and unkept. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has styled his white fur well, parting it to the right. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is obsessed with his god.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is greedy

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His bronze crest, when down, is lengthy. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Gifted from a young age, Heskan studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Adventurer. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and balancing his hectic life and new adventurer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 260 gp.