Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and likes to wear violet tank tops with grey pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a great chef.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Courier and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her beige fur has been sun bleached extensively. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Sun hails from a village terrorized by goblins. 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 has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature kukri.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 10000 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). Jet (150 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He very much looks the part of a Priest. He has a hunchback. He wears his brown hair down. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He worked as a nervous Priest and found it very stressful. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is dark red and curly. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hecat fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1300 gp. Rose (60 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a green costume with the symbols of luck on her torso, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has a dull look in her black eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: In love, Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Balam lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He tends to his Painter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'4" and muscular, this eastern woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Servant they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Gardener, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.