Description: Standing 4'3", this woman wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Barbena embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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 granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who prefers to wear tan pants and tee shirts, she is not a threatening figure. She has a very tight haircut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has black hair. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A freak accident while working with her Masseuse mother left her crippled. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by drow. Bethrynna was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the drow.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She keeps her purple hair in a pixie cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Lilith was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Tailor. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has wavy brown fur. His yellow eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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

History: Dynamic was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 190 gp. Brown-green garnet (50 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He carries with him a set of shortspears on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His hair is black and curly. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Gerbo will drive conversation. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gerbo grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Gerbo. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a grey shirt with thin brown vertical stripes and pastel pants. He wears his silver hair up. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Travok's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears a colorful flower in his bronze crest. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Rhogar took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Rhogar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears bulky violet painted plate armor. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Suhnae's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Suhnae was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.