Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a red tunic with grey highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Healer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His childhood dream was to be a Engraver, but he was a colossal failure. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; 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: Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is short and red. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a Stableman first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Being a Stableman kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: This woman prefers to wear flannel, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Anne 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 obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Arannis was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Citrine (70 gp). Blue quartz (10 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Amethyst (60 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is typically in her Priest uniform. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Nikki enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She got into the Priest business at a young age. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has worked as a Priest like her father before her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to be a beggar again

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Secretive, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears a white vest and prefers black and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the south, 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 south 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). A small bag of saffron. (90 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His gold crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. 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 is a Assassin first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly ceremonial daggers and lances. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'1" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a brown shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and tan pants. She sports red long hair. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (110 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.