Description: A 2'10" western man, he wears red robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a nunchaku, but if one is not available he will default to his crossbow. He wears a colorful flower in his blonde hair. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Ortegar was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He struck the Blacksmith job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on her left hand. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Ishte speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. Ishte enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has white hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. A true patriot, Vassago would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Baradad was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Baradad 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. Baradad decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Engraver for the past few years.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Professionalism, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). Black star sapphire (900 gp). Sard (40 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She keeps her purple hair in a flapper bob. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Ishte's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 140 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the left. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. In her 14th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 21000 sp.

Description: This southern woman has a large blue mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her brown robe. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. 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, Great is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Great grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a red collared shirt and pastel pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Gormogord grew up listening to his father's many stories. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 100 gp.