Description: This man prefers to wear flannel, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His silver hair is cut short. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Dain was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 6'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has green crest. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, 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. Being a Seamstress kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; 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

Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. 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. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 7000 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: This woman wears bulky brown painted plate armor, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Dagger was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many gnolls want her driven away

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor, Poor. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp).

Description: 5'0" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Shepherd. Her fur is orange and curly. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Shepherd. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Tricking was born on a far western mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Shepherd. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and balancing her hectic life and new shepherd responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. Emerald (1100 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and dresses like a well dressed Mason does. His tied-back hair is chestnut. His violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. A gifted student he started as a Roofer, but he got bored and became a Mason. He struck the Mason job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Military, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sai with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'3" when asserting himself. He has no hair. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Radomir was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 Crown-heir. He has achieved small success as a Crown-heir.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and expand his business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his morningstar, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He uses divination through singing.

History: Soveliss was born with his father's beautiful face. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears tattered old clothes. Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Actor work with an outfit from a few towns over. Actor work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40000 cp. Malachite (4 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp). Amber (140 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp).