Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a green tunic with tan highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length scarlet crest. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Heskan speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A freak accident while working with his Bricklayer mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To protect his home; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 120 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: This light-skinned male is renowned for his bright tan suits and hats. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His brown hair is long and unkept. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. 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. Hadarai fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She is a Lycanthrope in disguise. A gifted student she started as a Masseuse, but she got bored and became a Slave Trader. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to be a masseuse again

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She keeps her white hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. She's also a talented Fortune-teller, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her axe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1400 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (30 gp).

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady silver eyes.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Kasdeya was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. After coming to the age of reason, Kasdeya took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, In love, Mentor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a brown collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a blue scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has no hair. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Darrak was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 4000 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Obsidian (9 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (900 gp). Emerald (1000 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp). Jet (90 gp).

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her rapier with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. She has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. The war was a terrible time for her, and Nija does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Nija was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1600 gp.

Description: He stands about 4'7" and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Mercenary father left him crippled. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Gold and ruby ring (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp).