Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and golden. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. Ulfgar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Ulfgar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Revenge; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 700 gp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars, he is not a threatening figure. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. A freak accident while working with his Architect mother left him crippled. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1100 gp. Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the right. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Humans in Nicholas's homeland. Nicholas decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nicholas fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with black slacks. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her lavender fur is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Flask was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Aristocrat, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Aristocrat in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She carries with her a set of greataxes, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 6000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (1700 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears dull tan sweaters, loose green pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed sai, just in case. She has a very tight haircut. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. A true patriot, Ella would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Ella was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Job, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 80 gp. Hematite (9 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. His green crest is braided into rings. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Zedaar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Roofer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Slave Trader, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 700 gp.