Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is physically well-built. His red hair is knotted and matted. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Ploughman. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Rose (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. She has wavy black hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Performer and was forced into it by her family; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: She wears suspenders and grey workpants. Her shirt is yellow, and she wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She stands about 5'6" and wears long strands of aquamarine and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Herleva grew up listening to her father's many stories. A freak accident while working with her Jeweler father left her crippled. She came across an abandoned tomb where she found a relic that called out to her. After picking it up she was cursed by vampirism.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 2000 cp. Chrysoprase (50 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Lamlis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 80 pp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering her clean studded leather. She has wavy blonde hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Leshanna studied abroad. A serious injury left her father unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm father. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1800 gp. Amber (40 gp). Sard (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Dorn 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 made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 900 gp. Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available she will default to her lance. She carries with her a set of lances on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. The war was a terrible time for her, and Oppah does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Oppah was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 600 gp. 7 Acid flasks. 1 Holy water.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His purple hair has been sun bleached extensively. His ears are large.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Ahrim was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 5000 cp.