Description: He has a missing left arm. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has done his best to style his purple hair to look like a famous performer. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Amnon has worked very hard to control his curse. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 15000 sp. Sard (40 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Chenna hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Chenna was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Barbarian, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Barbarian in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She found a children's book about a Halfling Barbarian 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 gp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Rich purple corundum (900 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Azurite (13 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses like a well dressed Priest does, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His hair is red and very short. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A gifted student he started as a Interpreter, but he got bored and became a Priest. He tends to his Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Job, In love, Military. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp).

Description: A 6'9" western man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of brigands may trigger it at times.

History: Born in the west to a Spice Merchant, Mormo learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Spice Merchant and found it very stressful. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult; and half-elven compassion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his nunchaku with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Lamlis was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Guardian, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 60 pp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a tattered pair of loose pastel pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears his brown fur down. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Art never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. 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: Gifted from a young age, Dharg studied abroad. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This late middle aged woman tends to wear a large grey jacket and is in decent physical shape. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. Emmeline enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Emmeline studied abroad. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she wants revenge against giants

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 30 gp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: She wears an entirely tan suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her blonde hair is still thick. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Salanop was born on a far southern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Slave Trader. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Rose (60 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Coral (70 gp). 1 Chain shirt.