Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tan shirt, with a pastel mid length shorts with pastel tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Born to a Performer, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Orryn 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 Orryn. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

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

Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is long and brown with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His ears are large.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 230 pp. Bloodstone (20 gp). Star ruby (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He wears a colorful flower in his silver crest. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Norkruuth never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Guardian. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears green trousers with brown and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hand crossbow.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the west were limited. After a long history of fighting, Bolhild and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Dwarven compassion.

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears long strands of opal and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady green eyes.

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 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 comes from a rich northern family. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a black small hat and black clothes. Her crest is blue, silky, and of moderate length. She has gold eyes.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. She is portly but not overly obese. Her blonde hair is thinning but still full. She has gray eyes and a white hat with a green feather.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft violet waves gently in the breeze, and carries rapiers. He wears his red hair up. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 700 gp.