Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. Her blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. She is baby faced.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Alice 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. Sard (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Amber (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'7" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Avice 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: Avice was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Malachite (7 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Amber (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears blue trousers with white and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has a very tight haircut. He has violet eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Bertram is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a Beggar, his father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Miner hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Bertram never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac, Greedy. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: This northern woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 gp.