Description: This tall, slender woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her falchion with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Apothecary work with an outfit from a few towns over. Apothecary work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Apothecary for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, and she perpetually has her club ready. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is a great chef.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Hrathy was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Gifted from a young age, Oloric studied abroad. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Revenge; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 15000 cp. Fire opal (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Jet (60 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'10". He wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His black hair is still thick. He has gold eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Born in the north to a Fortune-teller, Thamuz learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. 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 Fortune-teller. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to drow.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 80 gp. Sardonyx (70 gp). Jade (80 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a large tan jacket. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her bronze crest is unkempt and raggedy. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Adventurer profession.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Dyer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She tends to her Dyer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This woman wears a brown vest and prefers red and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the west to a Tailor, Beatrice learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Tailor work with an outfit from a few towns over. Tailor work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. He wears his black hair down. His ears are large.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Thorin was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 500 sp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). 1 Holy water.

Description: An older woman who wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 260 gp.