Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a tan collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a great chef.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Frouse grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Frouse. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shepherd.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and longswords. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Loopmottin was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 pp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Deep green spinel (70 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. She is portly but not overly obese. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ranala grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ranala. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 20000 cp. Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his top tan hat.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 45000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. She has green eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Althaea was born the youngest of three triplets. In her 12th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold music box (4000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (10 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1100 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (40 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

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. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 110 pp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has slicked back brown hair. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Minor magic item.