Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has shaved her head bald. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: The child of a Soapmaker, who enjoyed hunting, Alain was taken on many hunting expeditions. Alain abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature nunchaku.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Family, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. He wears a colorful flower in his red hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Wiggens alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 130 pp. Sard (70 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Black pearl (1000 gp).

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. The war was a terrible time for him, and Beiro does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Beiro was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 900 gp. Black pearl (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Jade (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned male wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His silver hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. 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: Oppleby lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Oppleby alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Barkeep responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 25000 cp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed yellow hat.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born to a Fortune-teller, her father struggled to pay the bills. Her first spouse was a Fortune-teller, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Fortune-teller they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Engraver, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and wants to raise her children well

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 gp. Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp).

Description: She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. She has no hair. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: Phann wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Monk, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Phann hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly greataxes and clubs. His hair is black and very short. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Ivellios was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and 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

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears blue trousers with tan and grey striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He has white hair. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. After coming to the age of reason, Umpen took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a brown vest and prefers red and blue shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her orange fur is braided into rings. Her copper eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her childhood dream was to be a Laborer, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Miller.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Nature, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 50 pp. Red garnet (100 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Alexandrite (200 gp). Citrine (70 gp).