Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has wavy black hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are green.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Kristryd isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Dwarven unity. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Sculptor arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1500 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Banded agate (9 gp). Jet (150 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Alston will drive conversation. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a ploughman and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: Standing 5'2", this man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty pastel coat over it. His long beige fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 20000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Lance never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'2". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Bhevek was born with his mother's beautiful face. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing a long, black cloak. She has dyed her greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thava fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional, Insomniac, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears professional attire. His bronze crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This gold eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Gifted from a young age, Quarethon studied abroad. 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 was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He wants to get laid.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a black coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She carries with her a set of shields, each one with a ruby on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her black crest is thinning but still full. Her red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dragonborns became a terror of the countryside. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Iolite (50 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Being a Bricklayer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Jade (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.