Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ahlyssa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Black star sapphire (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Shane was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 60 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). 1 Spyglass.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born to a Courier, her mother struggled to pay the bills. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Sard (30 gp). Black opal (600 gp).

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She wears a colorful flower in her auburn hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Sellsword arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Shepherd they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Sellsword, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 500 gp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.