Description: This late middle aged man wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings and is in decent physical shape. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. He has hazel eyes and a grey hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Aldous embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Stableman. He has worked as a Stableman like his father before him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This man is very fat, and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortspear.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep pastel leather and dull red iron scale mail. She is portly but not overly obese. Her fur is yellow and curly. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 7000 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Matilda fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and doesn't want to be a tailor and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. At a young age his father died while driving off some orcs. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in axe use. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Nim fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (500 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He dresses like a well dressed Architect does. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Architect responsibilities is difficult; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a shortbow on her belt. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her green crest is singed and shortened. Her eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He has orange fur. His eyes are yellow.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He struck the Blacksmith job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Star ruby (1000 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Deep green spinel (80 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Aquamarine (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She tends to wear a large grey jacket. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Finellen hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. 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: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 140 gp.