Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His hair is silver and very short. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a green poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her blue hair, when down, is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Rieta studied abroad. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 390 pp. Deep green spinel (150 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing blue cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He has a hunchback. He has wavy golden hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Crampernap lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Crampernap took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. He has wavy silver hair. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He got into the Sage business at a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Bonds: Religious, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized topaz on her right hand. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2400 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'8". He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, and his gloved hand is found clutching a scimitar. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Tailor business.

History: Born in the south to a Tailor, Erky learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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. He became a Tailor soon after.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Tailor responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in the south to a Hunter, Helen learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Helen took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor she uses now. She struck the Hunter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 250 pp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the left. Her half smiles and violet eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving 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: Margery hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Margery 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 Margery. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Margery fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: She wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple violet line shooting up and back down. She carries with her a set of monstrous two handed axes on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. She keeps her black fur in a pixie cut. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with her Animal Trainer father left her crippled. Recently a tribe of giants 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's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Secretive, Antagonistic. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 900 gp.