Description: This late middle aged man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greatsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt and is in decent physical shape. His chestnut hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Guard business.

History: Born in the south to a Guard, Taklinn learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. 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 Guard. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Simple lock.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 5'4" and wears a worn and beaten armor. She has wavy chestnut hair. Her green eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 250 pp. Rose (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Violet garnet (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His hair is chestnut and very short. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Gifted from a young age, Arumawann studied abroad. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and revenge

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 100 sp. Blue quartz (8 gp).

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His crest is short and scarlet. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Kiirith hails from a village terrorized by giants. His divine abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: A small bag of saffron. (20 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (20 gp).

Description: He is typically in his Shoemaker uniform. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Shoemaker work with an outfit from a few towns over. Shoemaker work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Family, Slave. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Sporting a red mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born in the south to a Hunter, Kipper learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He found a children's book about a Gnome Barbarian who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he has a crush on the local brewer

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He usually wears his brown robe and has his scimitar always slung over his shoulder. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is a great chef.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave 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 mountains due to the painful memories there. Chad took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up scimitar and armor he uses now. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Chad fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Star ruby (1400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. She carries with her a set of kukris on her belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. Her long blonde hair reaches down to her waist. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Being a Soapmaker kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a pastel top hat and pastel clothes, and is pretty ugly. His yellow fur is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Dagger is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 sp.