Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He wears his black hair down. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Elven companion (his 'brother'). He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: This northern man wears dull grey sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed whip, just in case. His clothes are grease stained in places. With a patchy brown beard and wild brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her orange fur is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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 is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shadow 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 Shadow. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shadow fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Bloodstone (20 gp). Blue quartz (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise black. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 48. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 600 sp. Coral (160 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her blue robe. She has dyed her greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She hates Dragonborns with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1800 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Deep green spinel (160 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortspear, but if one is not available he will default to his lance. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. He has white eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Glassblower but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Gifted from a young age, Iados studied abroad. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Iados alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, green shirt, and white tie. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. Her fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She takes great joy in being the best Interpreter in town.

History: The child of a Glassblower, who enjoyed hunting, Ubada was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She tends to her Interpreter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He carries with him a set of shortbows, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is cut close to his head. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Quarion was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. In his 15th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1400 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp).