Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her fur is orange, silky, and of moderate length. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. The war was a terrible time for her, and Ethereal does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. After a long history of fighting, Ethereal and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 150 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp). Jet (140 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. His auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Gardener born in the past three hundred years. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Gardener hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has worked as a Gardener like his mother before him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 110 gp. Malachite (4 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is dressed in an above average manner. His golden hair is cut short. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, tan shirt, and brown tie. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly monstrous two handed axes and nunchakus. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 40. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Argran never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and 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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Golden pearl (90 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Jasper (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. He wears his white hair down. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

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. Through the years after Gunter was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Gunter's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Miller

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

Possessions: 100 sp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp). 1 Average lock.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears dull black sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed hand crossbow, just in case. Her dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Priest for the past few years.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is light but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. Her black hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1900 sp.