Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Violet garnet (900 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears tattered old clothes. She has silver hair. Her green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

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 seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 3000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'8" and is dressed in an above average manner. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Barkeep they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Knight, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Rich, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 gp. Malachite (13 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Obsidian (13 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Melissa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp).