Description: This southern man prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. His clothes are grease stained in places. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His father, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Military, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 4'9" and wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and dwarven compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his top tan hat.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Mindartis lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Mindartis was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears a green collared shirt and black skirt. She accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her hair is blue, silky, and of moderate length. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Ronwe will drive conversation. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Tiefling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a white tunic with blue highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around his shoes. His hair is long and golden with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Hupe hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Hupe 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 Hupe. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Herbalist does. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are brown.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 18000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. He has moderate length silver hair. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Qemuel grew up listening to his father's many stories. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull tan iron scale mail. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length gray fur. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Shivering enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Unemployed. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Unemployed for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Tailor again.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 5'9" and is wearing a tight violet one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His tied-back hair is white. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kyle grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature quarterstaff.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Athletic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2600 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (30 gp).