Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. His hair is short and red. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a Barrister first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and prefers to wear flannel. Her black hair, when down, is lengthy. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Isabella 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 Isabella. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon her head. Her crest is silver and curly. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. Tatyan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

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 found a children's book about a Dragonborn Expert who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature spear.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 sp. Malachite (13 gp). Star rose quartz (20 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (600 gp). Red spinel (50 gp). Azurite (13 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull white iron scale mail. His long auburn hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 east. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Interpreter. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born to a Butcher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He worked as a nervous Interpreter and found it very stressful. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Interpreter for the past few years.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1 Holy water.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it. His hair is cut close to his head. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a great chef.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 140 pp. Violet garnet (1100 gp). Black star sapphire (800 gp). Obsidian (15 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Star ruby (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears skinny pants and wears a grey and blue robe with the hood down. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He got into the Animal Trainer business at a young age. He worked as a nervous Animal Trainer and found it very stressful. After a long history of fighting, Ralf and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 30 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: 4'1" and muscular, this western woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She has silver hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Cartwright. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Slave. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her black crest is heavily combed to the right. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

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. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Solid gold idol (400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (700 gp).