Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her lavender fur is greasy and uncared for. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Shadow's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 90 gp. Jet (70 gp).

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Hedonist. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears long strands of jet and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Arha 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: Arha was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Courier work with an outfit from a few towns over. Courier work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a white coat. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

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. After a long history of fighting, Gynk and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 800 sp. Eye agate (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his hand crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Dabbledob was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She carries with her a set of axes, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. In her youth she was a Painter, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: She wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. She is portly but not overly obese. Her chestnut hair is cut short. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Shautha was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

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

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Breastplate.