Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is a Layabout first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Mortician profession.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student he started as a Mortician, but he got bored and became a Layabout. He became a Layabout soon after.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1900 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). 1 Average lock.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a violet broad hat and violet clothes. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. The war was a terrible time for him, and Richard does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He got into the Sailor business at a young age. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a black cloak and cross-gartered red stockings. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born in the south. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 sp. Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Peridot (20 gp). Black pearl (1500 gp).

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears pastel trousers with black and white striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has moderate length gray fur. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Banker, Quick learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job, In love. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1400 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (500 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2000 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'0". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He was born in the east. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the east were limited. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Expand his business; and balancing his hectic life and new miner responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Guardian, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 27000 cp. Red garnet (150 gp). White opal (800 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He wears his gold crest up. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Trynnicus lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Trynnicus grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Trynnicus. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Debt, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She has auburn hair. She has gray eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Huru's homeland. Huru decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop hair cut. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (500 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.