Description: A 5'3" northern man, he wears professional attire. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Brogg is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 gp. Iolite (50 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp). Azurite (10 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Deep green spinel (50 gp). Black pearl (900 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 5'4". He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His hair is short and chestnut. His eyes are white and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Cairn was born with his father's beautiful face. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Cairn never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Brewer profession.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ruler. He has worked as a Ruler like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 9000 sp.

Description: An older woman who typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull violet iron scale mail, she is not a threatening figure. Her blue hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady gold eyes.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Masseuse but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1100 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1900 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (130 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (130 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (130 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (130 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She keeps her long rusty crest kept up in a rat tail. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Synthrin grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her childhood dream was to be a Armorer, but she was a colossal failure. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her shortspear, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents enrolled her in a Aristocrat school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Human artifacts is her passion; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 80000 cp. Citrine (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Rose (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. He has done his best to style his copper crest to look like a famous performer. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. 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 born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Ildrex was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Ildrex decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.