Description: This man is very fat, and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He wears his black hair up. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

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

Possessions: 400 gp. Red spinel (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (70 gp). Black star sapphire (1200 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat, and is pretty ugly. He has no hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 3'2" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Zaffrab hails from a village terrorized by brigands. After coming to the age of reason, Zaffrab took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a fancy violet suit. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has dedicated himself to building a better world.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Terse, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a green collared shirt and grey skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her white crest is heavily combed to the right. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Aasathra was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Layabout. She became a Layabout soon after.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Obsidian (10 gp). Malachite (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She stands about 5'5" and typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With wild golden hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (50 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Courier born in the past three hundred years. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Courier arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when he was still a young child. The gnolls captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Tourmaline (140 gp). Jet (140 gp). 1 Everburning torch. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and carries daggers. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Stannor isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Blacksmith profession.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Bather and found it very stressful. He tends to his Bather job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bather responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carnelian (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Red garnet (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.