Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Xappan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Dwarven companion (his 'brother'). He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a robe, a symbol of magic around her neck, and a halberd on her belt. She wears her brown hair up. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She dropped out of school to support her sick father, and resented it. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He carries with him a set of pickaxes on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His crest is scarlet and very short. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has styled his auburn hair well, parting it to the right. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Locksmith born in the past three hundred years. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Locksmith. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His hair is brown and curly. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Pallabar's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His childhood dream was to be a Seamstress, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Herbalist like his father before him.

Motivation: To be a Seamstress again; and balancing his hectic life and new herbalist responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His tied-back hair is golden. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

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 made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2300 gp). Gold music box (3000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (70 gp). Silver ewer (100 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (70 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2300 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2300 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1100 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His silver crest is still thick. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a butcher and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears many layers of old clothing at all times, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is brown and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Aline was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'0" and muscular, this southern woman dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Jacoba is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Jacoba was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 gp.