Description: This younger middle-aged woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She carries a battered shortspear and tarnished sword as well. Her purple hair is lengthy. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines white.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver ewer (40 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (40 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She carries a battered warhammer and tarnished glaive as well. Her fur is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her fierce green 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 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: The child of a Junk Dealer, who enjoyed hunting, Edge was taken on many hunting expeditions. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 bought a glaive and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 310 gp. Iolite (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. 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 considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Eberdeb was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She wears dull tan sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed halberd, just in case, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'1" when asserting herself. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: 6'4" and muscular, this western woman prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her orange fur is singed and shortened. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Merchant. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 20 gp. Blue quartz (8 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has a hunchback. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Nissa never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, In love. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 190 gp. Onyx (40 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in earthy colors with a red and black handkerchief worn on his left side. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Howard liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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. Howard fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Military, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is dressed in a clean red cloak covering his clean studded leather. He sports a flattop hair cut. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Through the years after Halander was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Halander's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1100 sp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp).