Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his ceremonial dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His blonde hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. 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 into a rich family. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 130 gp. Violet garnet (600 gp).

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: The child of a Spy, who enjoyed hunting, Helja was taken on many hunting expeditions. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She tends to her Interpreter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His crest is rusty and curly. He has red eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Kiirith's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Zircon (40 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

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. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'2" and wears tattered old clothes. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length white hair. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Gûnd was born with his father's beautiful face. A freak accident while working with his Interpreter father left him crippled. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Terse, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (70 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her hair is red and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Maiathah hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is a great chef.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the west. After coming to the age of reason, Maiathah took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her sai with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears a colorful flower in her dark red hair. She has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nemeia is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Nemeia was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Justice, Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 300 pp. Carnelian (40 gp). Smoky quartz (40 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 wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is physically well-built. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Aerdeth was born the youngest of three triplets. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is content; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp.