Description: He stands about 5'6" and is typically in his Bricklayer uniform. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His golden hair is matted, messy, and big. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the south to a Bricklayer, Dean learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 800 pp. Moss agate (10 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears black trousers with grey and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a very tight haircut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Adept who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Jeweler responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 8000 sp. Rich purple corundum (1600 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He has done his best to style his purple hair to look like a famous performer. His gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now owns his own business.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1500 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1100 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His long black crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are red.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Armorer. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Gerald embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Gerald was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 150 gp. Coral (90 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length cinnamon fur. His fierce copper eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she usually wears her grey robe and has her bastard sword always slung over her shoulder. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Miller. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to be a stableman again

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears long strands of ruby and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has wavy red hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the north were limited. 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: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Mason

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

Possessions: 1200 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp). A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (50 gp).