Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears black trousers with blue and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is an epitome of beauty. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ar-Kaius grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears dull black sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. She sports blonde long hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden pearl (130 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he usually wears his tan robe and has his rapier always slung over his shoulder. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He worked as a nervous Mercenary and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Mercenary like his mother before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp. Banded agate (16 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a grey and black robe with the hood down. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Trym was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her black fur is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She works hard and plays hard.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a blue tunic with red highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Donella was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He sports a flattop hair cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: 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; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her red eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Spice Merchant; and she is content

Flaws: Sensitive, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears bulky brown painted plate armor. She has dyed her greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 74. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 20 gp.