Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly crossbows and kukris. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ernest isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born to a Soapmaker, his mother struggled to pay the bills. 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Poor, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp).

Description: She wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She tends to wear a large brown jacket. She carries with her a set of sais, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is auburn and curly. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Hugolina was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In her youth she was a Armorer, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger brother on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She tends to her Shipwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a blue vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her red leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her blue boots flare out at the collars. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp).

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Zircon (60 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Amethyst (70 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length auburn hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Ratak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When Ratak reached his early adolescence his Half-Orc 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 tends to his Server job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and balancing his hectic life and new server responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Tervaround 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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Tervaround was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 2000 gp. Sard (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a blue costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Knight born in the past three hundred years. A friendly and beautiful Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 sp. Alexandrite (1300 gp). Peridot (80 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears just a black suit. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 250 gp.