Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Norkruuth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and chestnut. His silver eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Vassago is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a black scarf. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and sickles. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born in the south. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Dabbledob 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 Dabbledob. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Amethyst (150 gp).

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. She carries with her a set of falchions, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her beige fur is smooth and relatively long. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Skirt was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. After a long history of fighting, Skirt and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is typically in his Spice Merchant uniform. His long scarlet crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 20 pp. Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his white robe. He has no hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2300 gp. Malachite (10 gp). Moss agate (10 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Eye agate (10 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He uses divination through singing.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Dabbledob was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Baker. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature whip.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, she is not a threatening figure. She has bronze crest. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. A friendly and beautiful Dragonborn, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Born in the west to a Architect, Jezean learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has worked as a Architect like her father before her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 gp. Sard (40 gp). Rose (40 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a fancy blue suit. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Greedy, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 110 gp.