Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Shane wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Bard, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has achieved small success as a Sellsword.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to be a miner again

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 90 gp. Amber (60 gp).

Description: This northern man wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is black, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Through the years after Theren was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Theren's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: She has a large yellow mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her green robe. She is portly but not overly obese. Her head has been shaved. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Cecily was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. 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 Detective. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Detective.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat, and carries ceremonial daggers. His black crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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, Srorthen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Srorthen alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.