Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She is baby faced.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born into a rich family. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Mary took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up sai and armor she uses now. After a long history of fighting, Mary and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new gardener responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 20000 cp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he prefers to wear flannel. His hair is long and red with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small tan clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He tends to his Spice Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To be a Guard again.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Chrysoberyl (80 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears baggy black pantaloons and a green scarf. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 34. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 30000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She carries with her a set of scythes on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. Her brown hair is still thick. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is a great chef.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vicky fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.