Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull green iron scale mail. Her tied-back hair is black. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When Oriff reached her early adolescence her Dwarf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man is dressed in earthy colors with a green and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His brass crest is knotted and matted. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He's in love; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Zircon (20 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She carries a battered shortbow and tarnished shield as well. Her purple hair is matted, messy, and big. Her silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Knight arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is blonde and very short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She works hard and plays hard.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the north. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has moderate length brown hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Alberich hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. A freak accident while working with his Spice Merchant father left him crippled. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: In love, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Heward abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she usually wears her black robe and has her scimitar always slung over her shoulder. Her blue hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is mildly Tiefling supremacist, though she does not identify as such. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She bought a scimitar and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and balancing her hectic life and new armorer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (40 gp). Silver ewer (40 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp).