Description: A plain young-adult woman, she tends to wear a large black jacket. Her scarlet crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Burana is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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. 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. Burana fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He takes great joy in being the best Slave Trader in town.

History: He was born in a small island village. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears a violet vest and prefers blue and black shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. She has moderate length silver hair. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

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; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her blue crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

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 can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Ruloth was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This woman wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her right hand. Her silver hair is knotted and matted. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Avelina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Through the years after Avelina was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Avelina's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to prove her worth to the world

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 20 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a brown coat. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly warhammers and scythes. He has a very tight haircut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Hedonist, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A 3'0" eastern man, he wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. 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 enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has worked as a Roofer like his father before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new roofer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Insane. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He got into the Doctor business at a young age. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 60 gp. Pink pearl (40 gp).