Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Melissa hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. Melissa liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 700 gp. Star rose quartz (20 gp). Jade (150 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Eva never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Violet garnet (500 gp). White pearl (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older man who wears a green collared shirt and violet pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, he is not a threatening figure. Sporting a golden mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Alex was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Alex was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he's in love

Bonds: Religious, Family, Military, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 800 gp.