Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is silver and curly. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Optimist, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Darkwood Shield. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

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 auburn and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is obsessed with her god.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Philomena was born on a far southern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Cartwright. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: Standing 2'11", this woman wears dull red sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed lance, just in case. Her hair is white and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Portia was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Portia's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and gnomish compassion

Flaws: Racist, Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 31000 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a shortbow on his belt. His white fur is thinning but still full. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Dagger will drive conversation. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Dagger 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. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert, Gifted. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. A true patriot, Blorg would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Paladin school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her greatsword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. 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: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and retire the richest woman in the south

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 4 Antitoxin. 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'7" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. Sporting a golden mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Passionate, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 22000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: She is a Slaad in disguise. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Unemployed. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Star ruby (900 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp).

Description: 2'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a red shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and brown pants. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Stacee will drive conversation. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. She worked as a nervous Servant and found it very stressful. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.