Description: This southern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is cut short. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thodris studied abroad. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Frederick hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Frederick 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 has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Malachite (9 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp).

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has violet eyes and a violet hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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 son.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: He wears a blue broad hat and blue clothes, and carries kukris. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his 20th 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. Pink pearl (110 gp). Sard (70 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: She stands about 5'5" and tends to wear a pastel poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her cinnamon fur is lengthy. She has gleaming, smiling yellow eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Shifting grew up listening to her mother's many stories. A gifted student she started as a Fletcher, but she got bored and became a Animal Trainer. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Animal Trainer responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 pp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 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 wears a black armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Xappan is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Depressed, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 140 gp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Keth was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Keth decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature lance.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a tan vest and prefers blue and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her hair is short and white. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the east were limited. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 200 gp.