Description: This man is very fat, and wears a black vest and prefers yellow and blue shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (700 gp).

Description: 5'7" and muscular, this northern woman is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. She has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. 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 comes from a rich northern family. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She tends to her Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Priest responsibilities is difficult; and expand her business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 50 gp. Citrine (80 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Werydd was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Military, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 4000 gp. Alexandrite (1200 gp). Brown-green garnet (70 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Lapis lazuli (15 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown shirt, with a violet mid length shorts with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Robert was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and expand his business

Flaws: Forgetful, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is wearing a long, yellow cloak. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Vadania was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. She struck the Seamstress job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Debt. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His green crest has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to illithids demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and many illithids want him driven away

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor and is in decent physical shape. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. Her eyes are likewise brown. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She tends to her Herbalist job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His skin is also unnaturally pale. His black hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Cook arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Uraim 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 Uraim. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and a strong sense of loyalty to half-orc people

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a black shirt with thin yellow vertical stripes and green pants. She wears her gold crest down. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Savaran was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.