Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Volen grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Volen's homeland. Volen decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Volen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. Iolite (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Jade (150 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Beloril has worked very hard to control his curse. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Silver pearl (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants, he is not a threatening figure. His brass crest has been sun bleached extensively. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Mason. He tends to his Mason job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Slave, Job, Debt. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 110000 cp. Silver pearl (80 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Jet (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. 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: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Flaws: Shy, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.