Description: This late middle aged woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Bather responsibilities is difficult; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 600 gp. Jasper (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Jasper (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying west to reunite her family. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'11". He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and his gloved hand is found clutching a sai. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top brown hat.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Veit was born with his mother's beautiful face. His first spouse was a Detective, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears bulky black painted plate armor. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gnarsh has worked very hard to control his curse. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and revenge

Flaws: Addict, Terse, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 11000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

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. His hair is white and curly. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. A friendly and beautiful Human, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heward fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ûkbûk grew up listening to his father's many stories. 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 Beggar. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ûkbûk fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 1000 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (170 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp).

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.