Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His hair is golden and very short. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Navigator they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Stylist, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 pp. Red garnet (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This woman dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has brown hair. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Sarai hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. Sarai enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Marshal. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and she is content

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 40 pp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Dondon was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He wears a tight fitting violet shirt and pants. He carries with him a set of maces, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: The child of a Bricklayer, who enjoyed hunting, Azaki was taken on many hunting expeditions. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This northern man wears bulky white painted plate armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his brother

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.