Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He sports a flattop hair cut. His ears are large.

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 disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is renowned for her bright grey dresses and hats. She is portly but not overly obese. Her head has been shaved. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This dark-skinned male prefers to wear flannel. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has achieved small success as a Stableman.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: 6'5" and muscular, this western woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. 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: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Megren was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Megren decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40 pp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has brown hair. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. 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 Fortune-teller. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 100 gp.