Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has wavy black hair. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Bucklal was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Bucklal fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 6000 cp. Blue quartz (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His ears are large.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's in love.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (2000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1700 gp). Gold and ruby ring (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1300 gp).

Description: She wears professional attire. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her pickaxe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Balifra will drive conversation. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Balifra lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Navigator father left her crippled. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1700 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). White opal (700 gp). Black star sapphire (700 gp).

Description: This southern man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His clothes are grease stained in places. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dragonborns in Fax's homeland. Fax decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Fax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Sardonyx (20 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Coral (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 4'9" western man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 a great chef.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear flannel. He has no hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 gp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Amethyst (120 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Through the years after Arnold was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Arnold's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 220 pp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His long red fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: The child of a Locksmith, who enjoyed hunting, Tricking was taken on many hunting expeditions. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her blue crest is knotted and matted. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1200 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.