Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a fancy red dress. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Shoemaker born in the past three hundred years. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He usually wears his tan robe and has his spear always slung over his shoulder. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Carter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, In love. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is black and very short. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. Her skin is light but she possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. Her brown hair is cut short. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Ovak was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She's in love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and carries swords. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length blue hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Verin 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: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the east. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a warhammer on her belt. Her hair is blonde and curly. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. The war was a terrible time for her, and Dee does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Dee was born with her father's beautiful face. When Dee reached her early adolescence her Halfling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dee fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Barber but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Fallthra was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by illithids, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 400 sp. Chalcedony (70 gp). Onyx (70 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her orange fur is singed and shortened. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her parents were killed by drow in a raid when she was still a young child. The drow captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Smoking was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 160 pp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She sports black long hair. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Aline will drive conversation. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. When Aline reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aline fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Coral (90 gp).