Description: He is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born in the west to a Map Maker, Nelkin learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Seamstress they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Map Maker, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 gp. Old masterpiece painting (1800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings, and carries swords. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Engong hails from a village terrorized by giants. Her parents enrolled her in a Ranger school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Engong fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 140 pp. Moonstone (40 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Elf, and stands approximately 4'8". She wears a violet vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her violet boots flare out at the collars, and her gloved hand is found clutching a longbow. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This western woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was born in the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the west were limited. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She's in love.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 11000 cp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and black handkerchief worn on her right side. Her white hair is singed and shortened. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Mara liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and wants a kiss

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Nature. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 300 sp. Amethyst (70 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His cinnamon fur is lengthy. His yellow eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. The war was a terrible time for him, and Three does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Three was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Zâthra hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Zâthra was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Beggar. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 15000 cp.