Description: This man typically wears pastel cloth garments or leather armor. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his right hand. His cinnamon fur is matted, messy, and big. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1800 gp. Banded agate (13 gp). Chalcedony (60 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a tan broad hat and tan clothes. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His hazel 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. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His childhood dream was to be a Doctor, but he was a colossal failure. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To be a Doctor again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 300 gp. Tourmaline (70 gp). Jet (70 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His blue hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He has dark red hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born in 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 left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: This woman is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats, and sports empty pouches on her belt. With bright brown hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Through the years after Avice was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Avice's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He has blonde hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Jak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Servant they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Laborer, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Laborer

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

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She stands about 4'11" and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy black hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Adrie grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Adrie. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 gp. A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp).