Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are green.

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

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. 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 wants to meet his childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: An older woman who dresses like a well dressed Crown-heir does, she is not a threatening figure. Her blonde hair is cut short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and balancing her hectic life and new crown-heir responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 6'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sailor. Her crest is brass, silky, and of moderate length. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and doesn't want to be a sailor and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has moderate length red hair. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. In her 16th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Addict, Shy, Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (20 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).