Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. She has a hunchback. Her hair is red and curly. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A freak accident while working with her Laborer father left her crippled. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Selfish, Mundane, Disease. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Banded agate (8 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Pink pearl (160 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is wearing a long, tan cloak. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

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

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pyntle grew up listening to her mother's many stories. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she wants to get laid

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: He stands about 3'11" and tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Military, Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 290 gp. Aquamarine (600 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: Myev was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Monk, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Monk in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Halfling companion (her 'brother'). She has dedicated herself to building a better world.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Racist, Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: 6'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a black tunic with grey highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her red crest is knotted and matted. Her red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His ears are large.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the east to a Shepherd, Faran learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shepherd for hire.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Slave, Family, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1100 gp. Black opal (400 gp). Rose (40 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp).

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull green iron scale mail. She carries with her a set of shortspears on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 380 gp.