Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a white scarf and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Orsik is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He uses divination through singing.

History: Orsik was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her red hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. 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: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Gardener. She has achieved small success as a Gardener.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Baker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Baker work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to be a masseuse again

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 600 gp. Zircon (40 gp). 1 Breastplate. 1 Full Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She has moderate length chestnut hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born into a rich family. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. A freak accident while working with his Priest father left him crippled. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Secretive. Bonds: Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of ceremonial daggers on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His crest is scarlet and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. Pandjed enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Pandjed was born with his mother's beautiful face. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp. Amber (110 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: 5'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She likes to wear yellow tank tops with pastel skirt. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bricklayer profession.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her black hair up. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She uses divination through singing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Abalaba grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs, and is pretty ugly. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A freak accident while working with his Mortician father left him crippled. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 900 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).