Description: He prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. His blue crest is matted, messy, and big. This red eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Kerkad was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 130 gp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (100 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a blue broad hat and blue clothes. He has wavy blonde hair. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and balancing his hectic life and new soapmaker responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 250 pp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp).

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp. Star rose quartz (70 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This tall, slender woman is wearing a long, tan cloak. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mella studied abroad. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Mella never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, and she perpetually has her kukri ready. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Hadwisa was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. At a young age her mother died while driving off some brigands. Her father being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train her in kukri use. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hadwisa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Nybarg hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he has a crush on the local sellsword

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Priest

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Dwarven activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dwarven doctor. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 70 pp. Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greataxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and carries greataxes. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 120 pp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1600 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp).

Description: 5'11" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His long red hair reaches down to his waist. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Mercenary arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. 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; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2000 cp.