Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. His blue hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. After coming to the age of reason, Akmen took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Miller; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 700 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp).

Description: This woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. She has wavy white hair. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 east. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Family, In love. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears her purple hair up. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Manea abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Slave, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She is a Slaad in disguise. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is very fat, and is well dressed, constantly wearing a yellow suit, tan shirt, and brown tie. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (70 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is dressed in a clean white cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her auburn hair is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

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. A gifted student she started as a Blacksmith, but she got bored and became a Doctor. She struck the Doctor job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has dyed his greying chestnut hair a little too much giving a sharp chestnut color. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates drow. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Seamstress. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His black fur is knotted and matted. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born in the south. Smoking was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Stableman. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is dark but he possesses many blue ritualistic tattoos. He wears an entirely black suit with blue socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. White opal (1100 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Malachite (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.