Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright white and pastel, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. His hair is chestnut and curly. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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: The child of a Ruler, who enjoyed hunting, Ortegar was taken on many hunting expeditions. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a yellow scarf. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is braided into rings. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: Senteq speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Senteq is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Senteq was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Senteq liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has worked as a Armorer like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Armorer responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 28000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and usually wears his tan robe and has his sai always slung over his shoulder. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He takes great joy in being the best Shoemaker in town.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His childhood dream was to be a Slave Trader, but he was a colossal failure. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso, and is pretty ugly. She has wavy gray fur. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Engraver arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to protect her home

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Bricklayer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Bricklayer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now owns his own business.

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

Flaws: Addict, Impulsive, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has done her best to style her blonde hair to look like a famous performer. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Blue quartz (15 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull red iron scale mail. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. A true patriot, Thoradin would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Thoradin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a worn and beaten armor. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

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. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Military, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born in the east to a Miner, Nalral learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Through the years after Nalral was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Nalral's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 150 pp. 1 Minor magic item.