Description: An older man who wears a brown coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head, he is not a threatening figure. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now mingles about in high society.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 1600 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Star ruby (1100 gp). Aquamarine (1300 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Chrysoprase (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries a battered sai and tarnished scythe as well. His auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 3200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Gorga is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gorga studied abroad. A gifted student she started as a Junk Dealer, but she got bored and became a Slave Trader. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts, and carries scythes. She sports a flattop crest cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. She struck the Priest job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 400 gp. 2 Smokesticks. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears skinny pants and wears a black and green robe with the hood down. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a Marshal, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Bryseis has worked very hard to control her curse. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her small brown hat.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Agatha has worked very hard to control her curse. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Ruler they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Scribe, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister.

Ideals: Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing white cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has a very tight haircut. She has gray eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Red spinel (110 gp).

Description: He wears a grey shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat, and he perpetually has his ceremonial dagger ready. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cartwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 20 pp. Aquamarine (200 gp).