Description: He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a blue scarf. His head has been shaved. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Nature, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 80 pp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Moonstone (20 gp).

Description: He wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and tan pants. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished shortspear as well. He keeps his orange fur in a flapper bob. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Aura fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Poor. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 6'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Ar-Kaius was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against dire rats; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Spice Merchant. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she's in love

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Coral (140 gp). Jet (140 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a long black beard with little hanging trinkets. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Occupation: Server

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 14000 sp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp).

Description: He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. His green crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 110 gp. Rhodochrosite (11 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. Her red crest is long and unkept. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Barrister. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 30 pp.