Description: He wears a yellow collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'10" when asserting himself. His moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. Alex enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (600 gp). Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a club, but if one is not available she will default to her spear. Her blue hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are white and beady.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Bryseis enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Bryseis was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears long strands of amethyst and short blue dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Tippletoe is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Fortune-teller but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. She sports chestnut long hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Mercenary. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: Greeba was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Racist, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 800 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and dresses like a well dressed Sage does. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Gerbo was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He worked as a nervous Sage and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. His hair is short and white. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. 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 Tailor. He has achieved small success as a Tailor.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His white fur, when down, is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Right-Handed was born on a far western mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Spice Merchant. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1300 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: This man wears dull black sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed club, just in case. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His tied-back hair is blonde. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Zed hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Detective. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man prefers to wear flannel. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. His white hair is braided into rings. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born in a small desert village. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He bought a morningstar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (10 gp).