Description: He is a mite stocky and prefers to wear flannel. He has brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. His black hair and beard is wavy and long. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a Crown-heir first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Rolen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He tends to his Crown-heir job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 30000 cp. Aquamarine (1300 gp). Banded agate (10 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp).

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her long bronze crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Body Guard they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Bather, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Jasper (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She usually wears her green robe and has her club always slung over her shoulder. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 81. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. 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-brother.

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. Her parents enrolled her in a Rogue school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His silver crest is thinning but still full. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (30 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and is pretty ugly. She has wavy dark red hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 210 pp.

Description: This northern man is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Kellen was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Doctor. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he's in love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Healer’s kit. 1 Spyglass. 1 Hourglass. 1 Good lock.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a tattered pair of loose white pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. With bright white hair. Her blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 60000 cp. Bloodstone (70 gp). Rose (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). White pearl (80 gp). Obsidian (5 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Adventurer arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

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.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 3000 gp.