Description: This woman wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on her left hand. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Shoemaker profession.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Theirastra was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Theirastra's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to be a shoemaker again

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item.

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 baggy white pantaloons and a green scarf. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Burto 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 was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and money/treasure

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (500 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Golden pearl (80 gp). Jasper (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. Her blonde hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Trym lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Citrine (20 gp).

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'11" and wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her red hair is braided into rings. Her eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 3000 sp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Fire opal (700 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: This malnourished man prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Elves.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Crown-heir hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and gnomish compassion

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Brewer, and she perpetually has her halberd ready. She has brown hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. Her hair is golden and very short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Phann embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull tan iron scale mail. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and rapiers. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Alex was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Alex 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 Alex. Being a Cartwright kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Disease, Cynical. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Sard (50 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp).