Description: This dark-skinned male wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. 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, Theriatis is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sailor for hire.

Motivation: He is content; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Philantrophist, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 4000 gp. Coral (70 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Fire opal (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Gilthur 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. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. 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: Wants his loneliness to end; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1200 gp. Aquamarine (1600 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She wears just a yellow suit, marred by sweets. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Persistence, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 sp. Rock crystal (30 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Obsidian (6 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her red hair is wavy and long. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

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 always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Miner business.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 pp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. She has a very tight haircut. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Mella is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 350 gp. Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Jade (140 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around her ears. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of a Shipwright, who enjoyed hunting, Drenna was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This malnourished man wears a worn and beaten armor. He has wavy black fur. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Dagger 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. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dagger fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Military, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 2000 gp. Violet garnet (500 gp). Jade (80 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Sard (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Moonstone (70 gp). Rich purple corundum (1500 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (80 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Jade (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp).

Description: This man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His crest is white, silky, and of moderate length. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Bidreked was born with his mother's beautiful face. After coming to the age of reason, Bidreked 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. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Apothecary.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1200 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (180 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2000 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a brown shirt, with a blue mid length shorts with blue tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His orange fur is unkempt and raggedy. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Spear hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Hunter

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

Possessions: 1600 gp. Jasper (50 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Obsidian (11 gp).