Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she tends to wear a brown poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her divine talents. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'10" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. Shag enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Shag was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 900 gp. Rose (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is tan, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her bronze crest is smooth and relatively long. Her red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. 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: Born to a Barkeep, her father struggled to pay the bills. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and 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

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His crest is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and doesn't want to be a servant and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is renowned for her bright pastel dresses and hats. Her beige fur is greasy and uncared for. Her copper eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Blacksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and many orcs want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a green coat with grey slacks. She keeps her red fur in a pixie cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Brewer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shifting 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 Shifting. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1300 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1600 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (900 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp).

Description: 4'11" and muscular, this western man prefers to wear flannel. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is an amazing painter.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. After coming to the age of reason, Heian took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a grey shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and brown pants. Her long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. Obsidian (8 gp). Hematite (8 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). 1 Good lock.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. While he appears to be a normal Human, 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 bought a longsword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 800 sp.