Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a red tunic with brown highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears a Stetson hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Ploughman. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp. Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (10 gp). Jasper (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Naeris was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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 compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a long, brown cloak. She keeps her black fur in a pixie cut. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Laborer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1600 gp. Amethyst (40 gp). Bloodstone (80 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (800 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is dressed in earthy colors with a green and brown handkerchief worn on her right side. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 11000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Alexandrite (1300 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Sage mother left him crippled. Being a Farmer kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Baelitae was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She bought a pickaxe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Sensitive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Gardain was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Military, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (50 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This eastern man is abnormally tall. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. 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: Born to a Weaver, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Gomory was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Gomory decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Apothecary kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a blue shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and tan pants. She is an epitome of beauty. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is mildly Gnome supremacist, though she does not identify as such. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Nissa is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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 uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Jet (120 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Tourmaline (120 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Amethyst (120 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.