Description: She is a mite stocky and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She works hard and plays hard.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He keeps his long black fur kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise yellow. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. 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 always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1000 gp. Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Canary diamond (8000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses like a well dressed Barber does, and carries flails. She has a very tight haircut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is mildly Dwarf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born in the south to a Barber, Ilde learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 gp. Onyx (70 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Amber (130 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears large thick round spectacles.

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. 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: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Revenge; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 40 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'5" and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. Through the years after Aldous was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Aldous's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (700 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a fancy tan dress. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born at the edge of vast forest. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. After a long history of fighting, Theirastra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has wavy auburn hair. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Nordak embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nordak grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This woman wears a green tunic with violet highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around her shoes. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her ears are large.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: The child of a Apothecary, who enjoyed hunting, Ishte was taken on many hunting expeditions. Ishte liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 230 pp. Banded agate (13 gp). Amethyst (100 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat, and he perpetually has his trident ready. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1200 gp).