Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His crest is scarlet and very short. He has red eyes and a black hat with a red feather.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is typically in her Armorer uniform. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. 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 son.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Armorer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A freak accident while working with her Laborer mother left her crippled. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 500 sp. Tourmaline (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with pastel slacks. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

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 obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He found a children's book about a Dwarf Cleric who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Ploughman for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he desires power and/or immortality

Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length scarlet crest. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has never given up on his dancing dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2200 gp. Aquamarine (800 gp). Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Zircon (70 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She is an epitome of beauty. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Liftrasa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who likes to wear white tank tops with black skirt. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the east to a Bellfounder, Alain learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and expand her business

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 6'7" and muscular, this western man is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. His scarlet crest is heavily combed to the left. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. A true patriot, Bidreked would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Military, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 35000 sp.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She carries with her a set of maces on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. 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, Carlin is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Carlin hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Carlin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 22000 cp. Golden pearl (70 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Zagga was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. After coming to the age of reason, Zagga took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.