Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her blonde hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She has worked as a Fortune-teller like her mother before her.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 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.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Jeweler business.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ida grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Ida. After months of barely getting by, Ida managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, she made her way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and is pretty ugly. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Zâthra hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Zâthra was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Beggar. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and he wants revenge against dire rats

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 15000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears professional attire. His fur is beige and curly. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Shivering is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He comes from a rich western family. After coming to the age of reason, Shivering took it upon himself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: 4'11" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a brown shirt, with a tan mid length skirt with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: Bloodstone (40 gp). Emerald (1300 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his sai, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a rose on it. His scarlet crest is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 60000 cp. Azurite (8 gp). Peridot (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her beige fur is still thick. She has copper eyes and a brown hat with a violet feather.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Jade was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 110 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. His green eyes peer out from beneath his feathered grey hat.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Alex embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 120 gp. Silver ewer (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 4'3" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.