Description: He wears bulky white painted plate armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His chestnut hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Holg grew up listening to his father's many stories. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. He carries a battered scimitar and tarnished rapier as well. His scarlet crest is greasy and uncared for. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is an amazing painter.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Greethen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Amethyst (110 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This light-skinned female wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has dyed her greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

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. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 800 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Kali embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Flaws: Antagonistic, Lazy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 gp. Blue quartz (14 gp). Coral (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Aquamarine (800 gp).

Description: She wears bulky grey painted plate armor. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has wavy white hair. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She has all her life been fascinated with dancing.

History: Born in the north to a Bricklayer, Mardred learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (400 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man tends to wear a large tan jacket. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and dragonborn compassion

Flaws: Forgetful, Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 900 sp. Amethyst (70 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Iolite (30 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His scarlet crest is braided into rings. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the south. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Poor, In love, Religious, Guardian, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 250 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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. During her travels, Barbena and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Barbena discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Barbena fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Shy, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 280 gp.