Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has amber eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He was born in the west. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. He has achieved small success as a Fletcher.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, marred by sweets. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a worn and beaten armor. His lavender fur is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his copper eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a great chef.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Gale was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has achieved small success as a Tanner.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: She wears a fancy black dress. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has moderate length blonde hair. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a black coat with violet slacks. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her copper eyes peer out from beneath her feathered pastel hat.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 sp. Amber (60 gp).