Description: He wears brown trousers with tan and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and carries shields. His white fur is lengthy. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 78. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He became a Laborer soon after.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2200 gp. Citrine (80 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). White opal (1500 gp). Blue star sapphire (1500 gp). Jasper (80 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his brass crest up. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. Chrysoprase (40 gp). Banded agate (10 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Xanaphia was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Xanaphia decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 390 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a brown coat. She is portly but not overly obese. Her black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Beatrice hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Beatrice took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up monstrous two handed axe and armor she uses now. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 pp.

Description: An older man who prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Naeris enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gifted student he started as a Laborer, but he got bored and became a Stylist. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 600 sp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 15000 sp.

Description: He wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. He is portly but not overly obese. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. After coming to the age of reason, Nim took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. 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: To find somewhere to settle down; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Disease. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 5000 sp. Jade (40 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp).

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 is physically well-built. She has wavy blonde hair. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

History: She got into the Butcher business at a young age. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mardnab 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 Mardnab. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 400 gp. Violet garnet (1500 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born to a Barrister, his father struggled to pay the bills. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Pink pearl (90 gp).