Description: 5'2" and muscular, this eastern man wears pastel trousers with green and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears a colorful flower in his brown fur. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Emerald lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Sporting a chestnut mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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: She was raised in a forest tribe. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1 Magnifying glass. 1 Masterwork manacles. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He wears his auburn hair down. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Patrick embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 gp. Moss agate (4 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Blue quartz (4 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is dark but she possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. She very much looks the part of a Spice Merchant. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Guard

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

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue quartz (10 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is wearing a long, tan cloak. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She has violet eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull blue iron scale mail. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Marshal arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is greedy

Ideals: Pacifist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 130 pp.