Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His hair is short and white. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. 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: He is greedy; and revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a fancy blue suit. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). After a long history of fighting, Aust and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 sp. Coral (120 gp).

Description: She wears suspenders and red workpants. Her shirt is black, and she wears a heavy red leather apron most of the time. She is physically well-built. Her hair is silver and curly. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a great chef.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He takes great joy in being the best Fisher in town.

History: He was born into a rich family. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has worked as a Fisher like his father before him.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Job, Rich, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Black opal (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Gnomes in Roywyn's homeland. Roywyn decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.