Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. Her hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: The child of a Stylist, who enjoyed hunting, Manea was taken on many hunting expeditions. Manea liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 180 pp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp).

Description: This western man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with violet lining and desert motifs. His clothes are grease stained in places. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

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; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 gp. Amber (130 gp).

Description: She wears a fancy grey dress. She has wavy black hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Through the years after Bardryn was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Bardryn's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This woman wears blue trousers with brown and red striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on her left hand. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Religious, Nature, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: This man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is lengthy. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly maces and morningstars. Her auburn hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When Maynild reached her early adolescence her Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. She carries a battered halberd and tarnished shield as well. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Secretive, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western man is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He takes great joy in being the best Beggar in town.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Krusk took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up nunchaku and armor he uses now. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Krusk fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his kukri, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His red crest is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stylist arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Lazy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 6000 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (500 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (40 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (40 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (2000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp).