Description: Standing 5'1", this man prefers to wear flannel. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are blue and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She carries with her a set of crossbows on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. Her black hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of orcs may trigger it at times.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her parents were killed by orcs in a raid when she was still a young child. The orcs captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jillian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She keeps her black fur in a pixie cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep yellow.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Sage responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 180 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). 1 Thunderstones.

Description: This malnourished man is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, brown shirt, and green tie. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are gold.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: She tends to wear a violet poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her tied-back hair is blonde. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is mildly Half-Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her head has been shaved. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson white hat.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 9000 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Amethyst (150 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Silver pearl (150 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Chrysoberyl (150 gp). Pink pearl (150 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. His silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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. 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 is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he likes to wear yellow tank tops with grey pants. He wears his auburn hair down. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (90 gp).

Description: A 5'2" eastern woman, she prefers to wear flannel. She keeps her golden hair in a pixie cut. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Quelenna was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. 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: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job, Debt. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.