Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Depressed, Fearful. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her white fur is thinning but still full. Her yellow eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Flask was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 120 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He carries with him a set of pickaxes, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His yellow fur is braided into rings. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. Black opal (600 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp).

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this southern man wears a simple grey robe with white stripes complete with hood. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Masseuse business.

History: Born to a Body Guard, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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 Masseuse. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Buckler.

Description: This western man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His clothes are grease stained in places. His tied-back hair is silver. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 4000 sp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears just a green suit. He wears his brown hair up. His eyes are red.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Actor business.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His childhood dream was to be a Locksmith, but he was a colossal failure. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Job, Family. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 pp. Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears bulky tan painted plate armor. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She's also a talented Barrister, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.