Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and wears skinny pants and wears a blue and grey robe with the hood down. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are violet and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Pyntle was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Pyntle 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 Pyntle. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He sports black clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He keeps his white crest in a pixie cut. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Merchant business.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Nithther was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Nithther decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 500 gp. Red garnet (130 gp). Moss agate (9 gp). Malachite (9 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 500 gp. Zircon (80 gp). 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'0". She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her red hair is still thick. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She hates Humans with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Gifted from a young age, Katherine studied abroad. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She was granted druidic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Star ruby (800 gp). White opal (800 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a kukri, but if one is not available he will default to his dagger. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a Barrister first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

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. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barrister. He has achieved small success as a Barrister.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'10" when asserting himself. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates Half-Orcs with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He got into the Architect business at a young age. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and many dire rats want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 26000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has no hair. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the south were limited. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a brown top hat and brown clothes. His fur is yellow and curly. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Seven is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. Seven enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the west to a Bather, Seven learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bather for hire.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a green top hat and green clothes. His crest is rusty and curly. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Valorean lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and balancing his hectic life and new detective responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 100 gp.