Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his beige fur down. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Five was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Aristocrat, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Aristocrat in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature whip.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 10000 cp. Deep green spinel (80 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Silver pearl (80 gp).

Description: He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He married young, but lost his spouse to drow. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a violet vest and prefers black and violet shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has a very tight haircut. She has amber eyes.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and doesn't want to be a tanner and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her left hand. With wild white hair. Her skin is flawless and her green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born into a rich family. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 12000 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her black hair is matted, messy, and big. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bolhild studied abroad. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He carries with him a set of whips on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Amnon has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Amnon 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 wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 4'3" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has moderate length white hair. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed grey hat.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Morkral 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 Morkral. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Seeks redemption.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: He likes to wear white tank tops with grey pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. With bright white hair and a scraggly beard. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: Mord was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He has worked as a Mortician like his mother before him.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 900 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a brown shirt, with a tan mid length skirt with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. She has slicked back golden hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Her first spouse was a Blacksmith, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 17000 cp.