Description: A 4'5" eastern man, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His black hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He hates Dwarves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Thorin was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Thorin decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 150 gp. Jade (140 gp). Golden yellow topaz (500 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Beggar. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. 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: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and money/treasure

Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His gray fur is still thick. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep copper.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born into a rich family. He found a children's book about a Tabaxi Aristocrat who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a Sellsword soon after.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 250 pp. Silver pearl (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is short and red. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. After a long history of fighting, Ilga and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2900 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears a tan deerstalker hat and tan clothes. He has a hunchback. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Ribbles was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Ribbles liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bowyer for the past few years.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Religious, Job, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

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

Possessions: 300 gp. Deep green spinel (40 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This malnourished man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Gifted from a young age, Arjhan studied abroad. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Arjhan alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 600 gp. Alexandrite (400 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her white hair is heavily combed to the left. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Sarah was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Loud with bravado

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

Description: She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and she perpetually has her shortspear ready. She wears a colorful flower in her dark red hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. A true patriot, Vapula would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Vapula fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 11000 sp. Alexandrite (800 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Violet garnet (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a red shirt with thin black vertical stripes and grey pants. She is physically well-built. Her chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born into a rich family. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Bonds: Rich, In love, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 500 gp. Hematite (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item.