Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He wears his beige fur up. He is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born to a Jeweler, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Ethereal was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She stands about 2'8" and sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She keeps her auburn hair in a flapper bob. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She married young, but lost her spouse to brigands. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and many brigands want her driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat and is in decent physical shape. She has no hair. She has gray eyes and a white hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: When she was but 7 years old her parents immigrated from the west. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. 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: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 300 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a flail, but if one is not available she will default to her rapier. She has wavy golden hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and a deep hatred of goblins

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Sensitive, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 330 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. A freak accident while working with her Interpreter mother left her crippled. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 2'11" eastern man, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Roge hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is an amazing painter.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Roge was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: To end his boredom; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 800 gp. Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (900 gp). White opal (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with red slacks. He is an epitome of beauty. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Halfling culture. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He found a children's book about a Human Expert who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Racist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. Amber (70 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Nature. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1200 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp).

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her brown hair is heavily combed to the left. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. 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 in a small desert village. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Barrister they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Marshal, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family, Nature. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 230 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). 1 Breastplate.