Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat, and carries falchions. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Varis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This man very much looks the part of a Ploughman. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. Halimath enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Halimath was born the youngest of three triplets. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Halimath 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 Halimath. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Ploughman for hire.

Motivation: To be a Sculptor again.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 2200 sp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (50 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with pastel slacks, marred by sweets. He has no hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Reynard will drive conversation. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Extrovert, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail, and carries shortspears. She has wavy dark red hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Detective arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: 4'10" and muscular, this eastern woman is dressed in earthy colors with a tan and green handkerchief worn on her right side. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gifted student she started as a Detective, but she got bored and became a Performer. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Performer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new performer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: A 2'8" western woman, she wears professional attire. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. A gifted student she started as a Bather, but she got bored and became a Fletcher. She tends to her Fletcher job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Kava was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kava 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 Kava. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. Freshwater pearl (4 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. With bright brown hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (70 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. He has dyed his greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. He has silver eyes and a green hat with a violet feather.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born to a Tailor, his mother struggled to pay the bills. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has achieved small success as a Painter.

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

Ideals: Logical, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 gp. Rose (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.