Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Emen is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 300 pp. White pearl (140 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Zircon (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His blonde hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Guard business.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ralf grew up listening to his father's many stories. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ralf grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ralf. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears a white vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her white boots flare out at the collars. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Nogu has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. He has gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature warhammer.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: In love, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 12000 sp. Sard (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is dressed in an above average manner. He has shaved his head bald. 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 cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden pearl (160 gp). Malachite (15 gp). Tourmaline (160 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. A true patriot, Semyaza would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: She is typically in her Glassblower uniform. She is portly but not overly obese. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born into a rich family. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy, Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 10000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and white robe with the hood down, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is silver and curly. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. 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 feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: In love, Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Lidda was born the youngest of three triplets. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.