Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and carries greatswords. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Painter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 cp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a black deerstalker hat and black clothes. Her hair is silver and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Rieta enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Greedy. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her red hair is still thick. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has wavy silver hair. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born in the west. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 110 gp. Lapis lazuli (6 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Performer business.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: He is typically in his Miller uniform, and carries clubs. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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 has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Dalgal was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has worked as a Miller like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

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

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 110 pp. Malachite (14 gp). Golden pearl (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a black shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and brown pants. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Hematite (14 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull pastel iron scale mail. His hair is blonde and very short. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. The war was a terrible time for him, and Varis does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She is physically well-built. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. A true patriot, Sarah would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.