Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He uses divination through singing.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her trident with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She wears her red hair up. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 80 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp).

Description: An older woman who wears a green coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a Stetson hat upon her head, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is blue and curly. Her ears are large.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. Lerissa is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2400 gp. Blue diamond (2000 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Moss agate (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He stands about 5'5" and wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a whip, but if one is not available he will default to his ceremonial dagger. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born in the east. After coming to the age of reason, Megged took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 5000 sp. Black pearl (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a husky woman, who likes to wear black tank tops with yellow skirt. She wears a top hat to cover her moderate length purple hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She bought a shortbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a scythe on her belt. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Fletcher. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears professional attire. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Opinionated, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.