Description: This eastern man prefers to wear pastel pants and tee shirts. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Stylist who has hired him part-time. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Shifting was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Druid, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Druid in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length auburn hair. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She is content; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Addict, PTSD, Mundane. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She prefers to wear white pants and tee shirts. She carries with her a set of greataxes, each one with a emerald on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Gifted from a young age, Volen studied abroad. She worked as a nervous Shepherd and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 900 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born in the east. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 8000 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Zircon (40 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Black opal (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears grey trousers with pastel and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, marred by teas. His hair is short and red. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. 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, Gardain is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born in the north. Gardain was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bricklayer. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He usually wears his tan robe and has his sai always slung over his shoulder. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears just a black suit. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Through the years after Karash was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Karash's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Jasper (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp).

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her blue crest is matted, messy, and big. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Synthrin is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Synthrin took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up falchion and armor she uses now. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and doesn't want to be a cartwright and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1400 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. He keeps his red fur in a flapper bob. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Guard.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). Banded agate (13 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).