Description: This man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light pastel in addition to tight pants. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on his left hand. He keeps his yellow fur in a pixie cut. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Shifting abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has achieved small success as a Shoemaker.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

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

Possessions: 150 gp. Jade (40 gp). 4 Holy water.

Description: This eastern woman wears a black cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Shautha has worked very hard to control her curse. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized sapphire on her right hand. She has scarlet crest. Her red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, Arava took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His tied-back hair is golden. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He takes great joy in being the best Armorer in town.

History: Born in the south to a Armorer, Ahvain learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. His hair is long and golden with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are gray.

Personality: Rael is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Rael took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up bastard sword and armor he uses now. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. His skin is light but he possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is short and silver. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Roondar was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Malachite (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.