Description: He is lean but muscular and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright yellow and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His auburn hair is cut short. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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 son.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To protect his home; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 3'7" and wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying north to reunite his family. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away.

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: This man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and sports empty pouches on his belt. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Kaladan was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 230 pp.

Description: She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She is portly but not overly obese. She is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around her ears. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born in the north to a Beggar, Faral learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Beggar.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new beggar responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: An older man who wears a simple green robe with yellow stripes complete with hood, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His silver eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Unemployed but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Marbas has worked very hard to control his curse. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses like a well dressed Sailor does. His beige fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Gifted from a young age, Jade studied abroad. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sickle with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sickles and whips. He keeps his blue hair in a pixie cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Barakas was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Barakas decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats.

Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy dark red stubble. She sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has a hunchback. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. 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 been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and to be a fletcher again

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.