Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her hair is short and blue. Her silver eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker black hat.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Markosian was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. Amethyst (60 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. He wears his red hair down. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and he wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Oriff was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to protect her home

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Religious, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Onyx (40 gp). Obsidian (6 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He is baby faced.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Being a Laborer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 pp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Rose (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Rock crystal (20 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is dressed in an above average manner. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears bulky green painted plate armor. Her hair is silver and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Gomory was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. A freak accident while working with her Laborer mother left her crippled. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 5000 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a blue scarf. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Lazy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 26000 sp. Malachite (6 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp).