Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Cook arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Priest they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Cook, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Jade (150 gp). Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His blonde hair is lengthy. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Miles hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. At some point he was captured by dire rats and was tortured. After several years of this he finally managed to escape. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Tourmaline (140 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'9" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. He has a long blonde beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Gifted from a young age, Peter studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Job, Attractive. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He dresses like a well dressed Knight does. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 Knight. He tends to his Knight job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and white robe with the hood down. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting drow, the young Varis began to lead the lost caravan. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a green wide-brimmed hat and green clothes. He keeps his rusty crest in a pixie cut. His eyes are gold.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a white cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. She is an epitome of beauty. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A 5'2" western woman, she prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Eloise was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Through the years after Eloise was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Eloise's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This man wears grey trousers with green and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Travok was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.