Description: This tall, slender man wears a blue vest and prefers pastel and green shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His red hair is knotted and matted. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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 daughter.

History: He was born in a small desert village. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 sp. Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His fur is lavender and very short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Tabaxis in Emerald's homeland. Emerald decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 3'2" and muscular, this eastern man sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He got into the Dilettante business at a young age. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Dilettante for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 8000 sp. Gold music box (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (100 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. Sporting a blonde mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. A friendly and beautiful Half-Orc, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Golm was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Carter. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Golm fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Map Maker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He takes great joy in being the best Map Maker in town.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His childhood dream was to be a Baker, but he was a colossal failure. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and to be a baker again

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 11000 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a green tunic with white highlights, and long yellow pants that bunch up around her shoes. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Shax was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. His white hair is cut short. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 220 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Sard (40 gp).