Description: An older man who wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, he is not a threatening figure. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is tan, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her right hand. She has styled her auburn hair well, parting it to the right. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Barkeep arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Jade (160 gp).

Description: This western man prefers to wear flannel. His clothes are grease stained in places. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nalral 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 Nalral. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'10" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He has shaved his head bald. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. When Dayereth reached his early adolescence his Half-Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (800 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Barber hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat, and is pretty ugly. Her fur is short and orange. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Dynamic abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a red coat over a green low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. His hair is long and brown with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is obsessed with his god.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: He got into the Cartwright business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Cartwright. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and red, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Traulam was born the youngest of three triplets. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and to reunite with her absent father

Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, Family, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1200 sp.