Description: He is a mite stocky and wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his whip. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Shaká was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Bard, 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 Bard in service of a powerful lord somewhere. After coming to the age of reason, Shaká 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Peridot (70 gp). White opal (400 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears dull white sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed scythe, just in case. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes drow are coming to abduct people. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Halander alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Insane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His red hair is knotted and matted. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Hoshû was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Brewer work with an outfit from a few towns over. Brewer work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Hoshû never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 800 gp. Moonstone (70 gp).

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull grey iron scale mail. He carries with him a set of spears, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He keeps his long blue hair kept up in a rat tail. His black eyes dart from person to person.

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. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His childhood dream was to be a Carter, but he was a colossal failure. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Chem never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: 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: Fighting. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Job, In love. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 44000 sp. Red garnet (60 gp).

Description: Standing 4'10", this woman prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. She has shaved her head bald. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in the east to a Slave Trader, Millicent learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Slave Trader and found it very stressful. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and balancing her hectic life and new slave trader responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Secretive, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He carries a battered longbow and tarnished kukri as well. His brown hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Manfred was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Barrister. Being a Barrister 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 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; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man has the majority of his body covered in plate. He wears his red hair up. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Thorin is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Depressed, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 3000 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'2" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her skin is flawless and her violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she is dressed in an above average manner. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is an amazing painter.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.