Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'5" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He prefers to wear flannel. His crest, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are red and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. A freak accident while working with his Fletcher father left him crippled. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to protect his home

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1000 gp. Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His white fur, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barkeep. He has worked as a Barkeep like his father before him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 gp. Chrysoprase (60 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp).

Description: This woman is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, violet shirt, and pastel tie. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her golden hair is lengthy. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of a Blacksmith, who enjoyed hunting, Veloptima was taken on many hunting expeditions. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Veloptima has worked very hard to control her curse. 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: Her religion dominates her actions; 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

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her hair is silver and curly. Her black eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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: Bryseis was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Bryseis grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Bryseis. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).