Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His red hair is knotted and matted. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Borun's homeland. Borun decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants revenge against drow

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her hair is long and blonde with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small red clips. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and a deep hatred of orcs

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. The war was a terrible time for him, and Hoshû does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Hoshû reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hoshû fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 sp. Eye agate (5 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'8". She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scimitar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and her gloved hand is found clutching a scimitar. Her chestnut hair is lengthy. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. 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: Born in the east to a Bather, Anne learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 60 pp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He has white eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Gardener who has hired her part-time. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Actor. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Has a crush, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 600 gp. Onyx (80 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). Fire opal (1300 gp). Sard (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a axe on his belt. He wears a colorful flower in his orange fur. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.