Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'2" and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull black iron scale mail. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Don studied abroad. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To protect his home; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 1100 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Jet (90 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp).

Description: This southern man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His clothes are grease stained in places. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. 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: 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. 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. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent mother

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Zircon (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp).

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. She sports black long hair. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to be a knight again

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is chestnut and curly. He has blue eyes and a tan hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He found a children's book about a Elf Bard who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Rael was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Hourglass. 1 Hourglass. 1 Silk rope.

Description: He is a husky man, who is typically in his Unemployed uniform. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. He's also a talented Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Racist. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1300 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. She is an epitome of beauty. She has chestnut hair. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Donella is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born into a rich family. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. 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: She has money and likes to spend it; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: He wears baggy white pantaloons and a green scarf. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the west to a Bricklayer, Grumbar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bricklayer. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Amber (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.