Description: 3'1" and muscular, this northern woman wears skinny pants and wears a red and black robe with the hood down. Her hair is black and very short. She is baby faced.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and balancing her hectic life and new adventurer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She wears her chestnut hair up. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. 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 Hunter. She struck the Hunter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and to be a courier again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His red fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face is scarred and worn.

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 lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Gifted from a young age, Sun studied abroad. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'8" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 20000 cp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). 2 Antitoxin. 1 Everburning torch. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: He prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. His crest is bronze and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Direcris fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 60 gp. Red garnet (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She has styled her orange fur well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Cask hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Being a Jeweler 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 is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He keeps his brown fur in a pixie cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a robe, a symbol of strength around his neck, and a pickaxe on his belt. His hair is auburn and curly. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Gimble was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Citrine (20 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.