Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She tends to wear a blue poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears her silver hair down. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Tervaround was born with her father's beautiful face. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'9". She has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. Her hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born in the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

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

Flaws: Insane, Secretive, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She has no crest. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Burana never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her brass crest is lengthy. Her skin is flawless and her red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. 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, Kava is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Kava lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. 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: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Banded agate (14 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing a tight violet one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has wavy red hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He takes great joy in being the best Body Guard in town.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He worked as a nervous Body Guard and found it very stressful. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: Expand his business; and to be a animal trainer again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 500 sp. Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Onyx (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her fierce yellow eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Flask was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 sp. Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Iolite (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears just a violet suit. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Diggory was born the youngest of three triplets. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Banker who has hired her part-time. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was born into a rich family. Gorga was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Gorga decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Banker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He carries a battered morningstar and tarnished glaive as well. He has auburn hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Fulbar has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fulbar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Mundane, Disease. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 340 gp.