Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Body Guard but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she is content

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This late middle aged man wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available he will default to his scimitar and is in decent physical shape. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She wears dull green sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed greatsword, just in case, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'3" when asserting herself. Her white crest is heavily combed to the right. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. 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 has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her club with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her black hair is singed and shortened. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Matilda hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A gifted student she started as a Stylist, but she got bored and became a Engraver. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An older man who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), he is not a threatening figure. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

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. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears professional attire. He has scarlet crest. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Donaar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Donaar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A freak accident while working with his Jeweler mother left him crippled. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a jeweler again

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black fur. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a hunchback. His fur is black and curly. This copper eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Jade 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 uses divination through singing.

History: Jade hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by illithids. Jade was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the illithids.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is dressed in an above average manner. She sports a flattop crest cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Hethress has worked very hard to control her curse. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her dark red hair is long and unkept. She has black eyes and a green hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

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. Rieta was born on a far southern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Guard. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.