Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears a black tunic with tan highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around her shoes, marred by beers. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

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. Volen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Volen was born the youngest of three triplets. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Baker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Baker work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 11000 sp. Hematite (4 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, green cloak. She is physically well-built. She has dyed her greying purple hair a little too much giving a sharp purple color. Her silver eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the east to a Banker, Uzza learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Banker.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Flaws: Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Debt. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 19000 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (700 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses well, wearing brown shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a ceremonial dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his quarterstaff. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He is baby faced.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His first spouse was a Weaver, they had one son, 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: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 2500 gp. Red spinel (140 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She has silver hair. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. 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: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and elven compassion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 80 pp. Carnelian (80 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Jade (160 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears silk and lounges about seductively. Sporting a chestnut mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. 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 acts crazy and hedonistic. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Qualen was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Courier. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 31000 sp. Emerald (400 gp). Jade (80 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze. His hair is short and white. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

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

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear blue clothing when she does not wear armor. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. A gifted student she started as a Stableman, but she got bored and became a Layabout. She struck the Layabout job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.