Description: A moderately attractive man, he prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. His silver hair is braided into rings. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Manfred speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This late middle aged man is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather and is in decent physical shape. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a Stylist first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the north to a Stylist, Everard learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Everard was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Stylist. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1600 gp. Peridot (30 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Star rose quartz (30 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Iolite (30 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he sports yellow clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears a brown collared shirt and white skirt. She accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her silver hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature spear.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Sardonyx (80 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Star ruby (700 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He is an epitome of beauty. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Religious, Rich, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (90 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is silver and very short. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Alexandre was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 130 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (60 gp).

Description: She is renowned for her bright blue dresses and hats. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has no hair. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bookbinder. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Silaqui lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. She has worked as a Bookbinder like her father before her.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1300 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Red garnet (90 gp). Amber (90 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Silver pearl (90 gp). Iolite (20 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, red shirt, and blue tie. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her golden hair is singed and shortened. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Thea is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her father. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 46000 sp.