Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears skinny pants and wears a blue and black robe with the hood down. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1000 sp. Zircon (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a tan tunic with white highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished halberd as well. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ribbles grew up listening to his father's many stories. 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 24000 cp. Aquamarine (300 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats, marred by sweets. His red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A 6'0" western woman, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. Her hair is brown and curly. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Bellfounder arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Amethyst (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She has no hair. Her eyes are likewise white. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is short and chestnut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Born in the east to a Ruler, Pog learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She is portly but not overly obese. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. Her black eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Anakis hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Anakis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and a strong sense of loyalty to dwarven people

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is cut close to his head. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He got into the Painter business at a young age. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and balancing his hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Alexandrite (600 gp). Jet (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is mildly Gnome supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born into a rich family. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Racist. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 500 gp. Smoky quartz (80 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Onyx (80 gp). Star ruby (1200 gp). 3 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Acid flasks.