Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He has no hair. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Born in the west to a Shepherd, Zook learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. 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 has achieved small success as a Shepherd.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears bulky grey painted plate armor. Her chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Delre speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She carries with her a set of falchions, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her silver hair is still thick. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gurdis has worked very hard to control her curse. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 1000 gp. Red garnet (70 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Amber (70 gp). Malachite (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her ears are large.

Personality: Faral hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Faral 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 Faral. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 20 pp. Deep blue spinel (1500 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears professional attire. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and regain custody of her son

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 30000 cp. Coral (140 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp).

Description: This woman is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has no hair. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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: The child of a Spice Merchant, who enjoyed hunting, Hatae was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She bought a hand crossbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly axes and whips. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Actor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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. After months of barely getting by, Agnes managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Rich, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

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

Possessions: 5000 sp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (110 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a blue coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head, and is pretty ugly. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Through the years after Ridaro was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Ridaro's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Ridaro was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 60 pp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). Silver ewer (10 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.