Description: This exceptionally lanky man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His white hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is a Spice Merchant first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Spice Merchant.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'3" when asserting himself. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Bertram lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 15th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Bertram alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and doesn't want to be a mercenary and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 900 gp. Black pearl (1600 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Malachite (7 gp).

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Healer. She has achieved small success as a Healer.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Healer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His red hair and beard is wavy and long. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He got into the Actor business at a young age. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He struck the Actor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Chalcedony (30 gp). Jet (160 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. She wears her blonde hair down. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Oriff enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: Standing 4'1", this man wears professional attire. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Fire opal (1000 gp). Onyx (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Through the years after Arannis was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Arannis's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are blue.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Halimath was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Halimath fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it; and to be a herbalist again

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Red garnet (80 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp).