Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Abalaba was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, In love, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 310 gp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is cut short. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. 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 daughter.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Barrister father left him crippled. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Spy and was forced into it by his family; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears just a green suit. Her red hair is smooth and relatively long. Her black eyes peer out from beneath her feathered green hat.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by goblins. Vepar was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greatsword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her top white hat.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Entrepeneur, Athletic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and yellow handkerchief worn on her left side. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She got into the Laborer business at a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Laborer for hire.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length black hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. She is physically well-built. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Quilla is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She tends to her Apothecary job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Apothecary responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her head has been shaved. She has gray eyes and a tan hat with a green feather.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Buvvie was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. With wild golden hair. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

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. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.