Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her tied-back hair is auburn. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. Some 8 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Fallthra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 10000 sp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears green trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His crest is green and very short. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Azzakh was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Addict, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1000 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: This light-skinned male has the majority of his body covered in plate. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Erdan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is content

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is long and white with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top black hat.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 sp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is long and white with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is a Guard first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born into a rich family. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 400 gp. White opal (600 gp). Smoky quartz (50 gp). Moss agate (9 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has wavy scarlet crest. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: Heskan is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: Heskan hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He married young, but lost his spouse to orcs. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.