Description: A 4'11" northern man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Drogo was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a robe, a symbol of strength around her neck, and a spear on her belt. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. 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 recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 900 sp. Moss agate (6 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Zircon (80 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a crossbow on her belt. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is lengthy. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She takes great joy in being the best Ruler in town.

History: She got into the Ruler business at a young age. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 gp. Coral (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a green deerstalker hat and green clothes. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the right. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Herbalist. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Her first spouse was a Tailor, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Bonds: Job, Enemies, Immigrant, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 900 gp. Onyx (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his long red 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 can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Laucian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Herbalist, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and doesn't want to be a mortician and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a green suit, brown shirt, and green tie. He has dyed his greying rusty crest a little too much giving a sharp rusty color. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his club with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'10" when asserting himself. He has white hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Modean studied abroad. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 900 gp. Sard (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a crush on the local Engraver.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp. White opal (1500 gp). Sard (40 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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 greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.