Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and tan handkerchief worn on his left side. His hair is white and curly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A gifted student he started as a Hunter, but he got bored and became a Jeweler. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She wears a yellow shirt with thin tan vertical stripes and violet pants. Her brown hair, when down, is lengthy. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 5000 sp. Smoky quartz (50 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). Citrine (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair is always cut to a buzz. This green eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Lewis never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants.

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 6000 gp. Obsidian (11 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Rock crystal (30 gp). Freshwater pearl (11 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Malachite (11 gp). Jet (40 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Black pearl (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Sard (30 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Azurite (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Standing 6'4", this man wears brown painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. 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.

Flaws: Emotional, Mundane, Depressed. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 5000 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears a fancy white dress. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. 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. She bought a lance and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She's in love; and she wants to get laid

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Adrik was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Warlock, 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 Warlock in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Halfling companion (his 'brother'). He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 19000 sp. Gold music box (3000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull green iron scale mail, marred by sweets. His red hair is lengthy. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Nordak lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'2" when asserting himself. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy auburn hair. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Through the years after Rimple was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Rimple's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 2000 gp. Solid gold idol (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp).