Description: He wears baggy black pantaloons and a brown scarf. He carries a battered sword and tarnished club as well. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Tarak never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a nunchaku, but if one is not available he will default to his trident. His red crest is braided into rings. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Through the years after Direcris was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Direcris's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 3000 sp. Golden pearl (70 gp). White pearl (70 gp). Bloodstone (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, brown shirt, and blue tie. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. The war was a terrible time for him, and Marbas does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Marbas was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Armorer. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Warryn embodies much of what other species detest in the Gnomes. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Through the years after Warryn was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Warryn's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Carter for the past few years.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: He stands about 6'7" and wears professional attire. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His silver crest, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Fax is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Fax hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Fax alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 3200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. His hair is red and very short. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: Diggory wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Druid, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born into a rich family. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. 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: He is content; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 5000 cp. A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp).

Description: Standing 5'0", this woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. Her orange fur, when down, is lengthy. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Left-Handed speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp.

Description: Standing 4'2", this man wears tattered old clothes. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nordak 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 Nordak. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bertram fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.