Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a yellow suit, black shirt, and red tie. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has a very tight haircut. She has green eyes and a yellow hat with a black feather.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Matilda grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her first spouse was a Mayor, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'11". She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and her gloved hand is found clutching a trident. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her ears are large.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Syllin lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a black wide-brimmed hat and black clothes. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. 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 has worked as a Layabout like her mother before her.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Layabout responsibilities is difficult; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: He wears a fancy grey suit. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a Junk Dealer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears black trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her white hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. 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 served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a club, but if one is not available he will default to his shortspear. His Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Aramil embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the north. Aramil was born on a far northern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Dilettante. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly maces and greatswords. Her crest is white and curly. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Sora's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. 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 north. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Tailor they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Spice Merchant, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Moss agate (15 gp). White pearl (50 gp). Rhodochrosite (15 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Obsidian (15 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

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 is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He comes from a rich western family. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 50 pp. Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His orange fur is greasy and uncared for. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Shifting and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 5000 sp.