Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Human compassion; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Slave, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He stands about 6'2" and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His long scarlet crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His first spouse was a Fisher, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He carries with him a set of greataxes, each one with a emerald on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. 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 drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature greataxe.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears just a brown suit. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Riswynn was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length cinnamon fur. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a sword on her belt. She carries with her a set of swords, each one with a amber on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She sports black long hair. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. 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, Isabella is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Isabella lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Isabella alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 20 gp. Moonstone (50 gp).