Description: He is renowned for his bright green suits and hats, and carries glaives. His black crest is long and unkept. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He worked as a nervous Locksmith and found it very stressful. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born in the south. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. 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. Makaria 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.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying north to reunite her family. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 19000 cp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. She has done her best to style her blue crest to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Shoemaker business.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is greedy

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease, PTSD. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: 5'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: John was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, In love, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 120 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).