Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sickles and spears. His hair is golden and curly. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Criminal record, Guardian, Rich, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. He is portly but not overly obese. His long silver crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Direcris lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has wavy red hair. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When Watson reached his early adolescence his Halfling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Military, Poor, Family. Occupation: Server

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Peridot (40 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. Her black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top red hat.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Everard never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: In love, Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He wears dull white sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed trident, just in case. He carries a battered whip and tarnished trident as well. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Shoemaker. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. He's also a talented Interpreter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 300 pp. Violet garnet (1300 gp). Pink diamond (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Farideh was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Performer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Warryn was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Miller. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 3'1", this man wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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, Osco is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the east to a Cartwright, Osco learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Cartwright. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 900 gp.