Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears a worn and beaten armor. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is wearing a long, blue cloak. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Veloptima isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. 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: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Slave, Military, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Peridot (40 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'4" and wears skinny pants and wears a violet and green robe with the hood down. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: Shanairla was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 3'0" and wears red leather gloves, a red jacket, and tight pants. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has no hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Gildmak has worked very hard to control his curse. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and to protect his home

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His bronze crest is greasy and uncared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Kerkad is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. The war was a terrible time for him, and Traki does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Traki was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Doctor. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Antitoxin. 4 Thunderstones. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has no hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are black.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was raised in a island tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp.