Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He prefers to wear flannel. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears bulky grey painted plate armor. Her blonde hair is lengthy. She has blue eyes and a grey hat with a green feather.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and balancing her hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Racist, Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest and is in decent physical shape. She wears her auburn hair up. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Terse, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Philantrophist, Opinionated, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 10000 sp. Jasper (50 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Crown-heir. He's also a talented Engraver, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She sports blonde long hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. His blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. 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 in the west. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 170 gp.