Description: 5'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His white hair is braided into rings. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He is a Jackalwere in disguise. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Coral (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a violet costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. This amber eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mella studied abroad. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To be a Engraver again; and expand her business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (60 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (60 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He keeps his long dark red hair kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed green hat.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 900 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He dresses like a well dressed Map Maker does. He has done his best to style his silver hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: Paggen hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his dancing career. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Gifted from a young age, Paggen studied abroad. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He struck the Map Maker job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Ranala never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive, Greedy. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 42000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He has a hunchback. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Animal Trainer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Animal Trainer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He's also a talented Ploughman, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears bulky grey painted plate armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His auburn hair is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. The war was a terrible time for him, and Ralf does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Ralf was born on a far southern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Knight. 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 feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and black handkerchief worn on her right side. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Tailor born in the past three hundred years. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she's attracted to the pc

Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Has a crush. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 1000 gp. Eye agate (5 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp).

Description: 4'10" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 gp. Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.