Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. He wears his brown hair down. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 70 gp. Hematite (13 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing painting.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Unemployed work with an outfit from a few towns over. Unemployed work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She's also a talented Miner, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing her hectic life and new unemployed responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job, Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and bows. Her brown hair is braided into rings. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ronwe will drive conversation. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: 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; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 30 gp. Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'11" when asserting herself. Her auburn hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. She has amber eyes and a blue hat with a black feather.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 900 sp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Decarabia liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 13000 cp. Rock crystal (80 gp). 1 Silk rope.