Description: He is a husky man, who is dressed in an above average manner. His hair is brown and curly. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a brown scarf. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His fur is black and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: He was born in the south. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Laborer. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His auburn hair is knotted and matted. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has worked as a Barber like his father before him.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to protect his home

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Guardian. Occupation: Barber

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Chrysoberyl (120 gp). Jasper (20 gp). White pearl (120 gp).

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His white fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Spear was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Spear's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears skinny pants and wears a black and white robe with the hood down. She has black hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Tomph was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 80000 cp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a white collared shirt and red pants. He accessorizes with a tan scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Jak grew up listening to his father's many stories. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Cynical, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Black pearl (300 gp). Banded agate (4 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (300 gp). Black opal (1600 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her hair is brown and curly. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Eida grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Eida. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (60 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and carries pickaxes. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Ralf enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 3000 sp. Hematite (13 gp). Blue sapphire (1300 gp).

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Pyra was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.