Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her white hair is matted, messy, and big. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Veloptima was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This dark-skinned male prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Wrenn was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Knight, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has yellow fur. She has copper eyes.

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 dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Carter arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Persistence, Logical, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (9 gp).

Description: This man wears a blue shirt with thin white vertical stripes and grey pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on his left hand. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 150 gp. Jet (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Mortician does. She carries with her a set of rapiers, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She has white fur. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her tied-back hair is black. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Architect arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 sp. Malachite (11 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman prefers to wear flannel. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a green shirt, with a violet mid length shorts with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He wears a colorful flower in his silver crest. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Dazzazn wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her beige fur is long and unkept. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Bellfounder kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 110 gp.