Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. Her skin is light but she possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. She likes to wear brown tank tops with pastel skirt. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. 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: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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: Jo hails from a village terrorized by goblins. In her 10th year, her parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Jo alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 30 pp. Tourmaline (150 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a black Stetson hat and black clothes. His blonde hair is matted, messy, and big. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Hematite (7 gp). Banded agate (7 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a quarterstaff on his belt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 10000 cp. Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. 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, Mara is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Mara has worked very hard to control her curse. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his bastard sword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has done his best to style his blue hair to look like a famous performer. His half smiles and white eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 21000 cp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This man wears a black Stetson hat and black clothes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His dark red hair is matted, messy, and big. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines white.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Carpenter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Carpenter work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by brigands. Xappan was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She dresses well, wearing blue shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born in the east to a Soapmaker, Xanaphia learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Soapmaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Soapmaker for hire.

Motivation: To be a Blacksmith again; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.