Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her golden hair is still thick. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her top yellow hat.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She uses divination through singing.

History: Matilda was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

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

Description: She tends to wear a white poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She carries a battered trident and tarnished monstrous two handed axe as well. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

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

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'0" when asserting herself. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: Vapula hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

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. She has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Fonkin alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Pink pearl (130 gp). Coral (130 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is dressed in an above average manner. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Unemployed. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. She became a Unemployed soon after.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 700 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Interpreter profession.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Miner.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 47000 sp. 4 Smokesticks. 4 Acid flasks. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: He wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a green scarf. He is physically well-built. He has beige fur. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. 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. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp. Gold music box (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 2'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His head has been shaved. He has green eyes.

Personality: Joser hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He got into the Architect business at a young age. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Artistic, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman wears baggy black pantaloons and a tan scarf. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Soapmaker.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 90 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (80 gp).