Description: He dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with pastel slacks. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his hammer, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Altho speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Gifted from a young age, Altho studied abroad. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Impeccable, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a large red jacket, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'3" when asserting himself. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Howard grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull black iron scale mail. His long blonde hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is baby faced.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He takes great joy in being the best Fortune-teller in town.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He struck the Fortune-teller job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 pp. Amber (120 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). Sard (80 gp). Azurite (15 gp).

Description: 6'1" and muscular, this eastern woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her blue crest is heavily combed to the left. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gold eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 4'10". He wears dull tan sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed club, just in case. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Ahvain's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He's also a talented Hunter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears green painted combat armor at almost all times. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are a pleasant red.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 2'8" and tends to wear a red poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Pearl's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Sage business.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Pearl 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. Pearl 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. Being a Sage kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his morningstar, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. 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 is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Paggen was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Healer. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he wants to get laid

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1900 gp. Deep green spinel (140 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). White pearl (140 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). Fire opal (900 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Performer. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Performer and was forced into it by her family; and regain custody of her son

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 21000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.