Description: 2'10" and muscular, this southern man wears a red cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born into a rich family. A freak accident while working with his Map Maker mother left him crippled. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly pickaxes and scythes. His copper crest is matted, messy, and big. His ears are large.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. 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: Adrex hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 390 gp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp). Deep green spinel (110 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a colorful flower in his bronze crest. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Norkruuth was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He worked as a nervous Ruler and found it very stressful. He has worked as a Ruler like his father before him.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His cinnamon fur is still thick. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. His first spouse was a Cook, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (30 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple black robe with green stripes complete with hood. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Lezre was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Mortician. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants revenge against giants; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her brown hair is unkempt and raggedy. She is baby faced.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. Eva is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Eva grew up listening to her mother's many stories. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Dyer they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Seamstress, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Breastplate. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear flannel. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. After a long history of fighting, Jarana and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Forgetful, Antagonistic, PTSD. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 90 pp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Eye agate (4 gp). Chrysoprase (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and is pretty ugly. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. After a long history of fighting, Vistra and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His black 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: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. 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, Spring is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Tabaxis in Spring's homeland. Spring decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Bullseye lantern. 1 Masterwork manacles.