Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her brown hair is cut short. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered south to less war torn lands. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, PTSD. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her shortbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has golden hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Millicent embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Gifted from a young age, Millicent studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Shepherd for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His hair is silver and curly. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her long golden hair reaches down to her waist. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

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

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

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 feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Aerdeth was born with his mother's beautiful face. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: PTSD, Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 310 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (40 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man is dressed in an above average manner, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Boddynock 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. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Boddynock and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, In love. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She keeps her long black hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 2000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.