Description: 4'7" and muscular, this southern woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Malquis is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. 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: To reunite with her absent mother; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: She wears a violet coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon her head. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Shoemaker for hire.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She is physically well-built. She has moderate length silver hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born in a small plains village. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Peridot (60 gp).

Description: An older woman who tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Grai hails from a village terrorized by orcs. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 140 gp. Deep green spinel (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She is portly but not overly obese. She has a very tight haircut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student she started as a Carter, but she got bored and became a Cook. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She is content; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a pastel scarf. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is a great chef.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. After coming to the age of reason, Himo took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Unemployed. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Unemployed for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 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 is physically well-built. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 sp.