Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Xappan 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. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover her moderate length yellow fur. Her copper eyes are passionate and lively.

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. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Professionalism, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears just a brown suit, and he perpetually has his spear ready. He has wavy white hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Baern is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Healer for hire.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Healer

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Hematite (16 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp). White opal (700 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Blue star sapphire (700 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Hematite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Cartwright 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: Seeks redemption; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1100 pp. Peridot (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). White opal (700 gp). Hematite (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She wears her white crest up. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

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. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears a blue collared shirt and tan skirt. She accessorizes with a grey scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Nissa lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 20000 cp.

Description: 4'1" and muscular, this northern woman wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her moppish white hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. After a long history of fighting, Kilia and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 700 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). A small bag of saffron. (30 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (90 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (600 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is scarred and worn.

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. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Mumpena has worked very hard to control her curse. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp.