Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She has brown hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady white eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sage business.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Semyaza grew up listening to her father's many stories. Semyaza was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Sage. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. With a patchy white beard and wild white hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He bought a crossbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a trident on her belt. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Chaedi liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her fierce yellow eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. River abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a black scarf. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Ratanák took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears his blue hair up. He has red eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Pelaios was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pelaios grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Pelaios. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her nunchaku, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mercenary business.

History: She was born into a rich family. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Mercenary for hire.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.