Description: This woman dresses well, wearing red shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair and beard is wavy and long. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His first spouse was a Butcher, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. After a long history of fighting, Manfred and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 120 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Birel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length black crest. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Ploughman work with an outfit from a few towns over. Ploughman work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He's also a talented Mortician, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull grey iron scale mail. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Emmeline 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. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is silver and curly. His red eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ekemon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Ekemon was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Masseuse like his mother before him.

Motivation: To be a Courier again; and balancing his hectic life and new masseuse responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 sp. Jade (150 gp).

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his gray fur in a flapper bob. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Guardian, Family, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. She wears a blue shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has a hunchback. Her hair is short and silver. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Hunter business.

History: Ella hails from a village terrorized by giants. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Ella was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Revenge; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 90 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.