Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Fallond enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man usually wears his black robe and has his hand crossbow always slung over his shoulder. His blue hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise black. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Cairn hails from a village terrorized by giants. 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

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

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

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

Possessions: 16000 sp. Jade (160 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). White opal (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her fur, while still mostly lavender, has prominent grey streaks. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Cloak was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Cloak decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and money/treasure

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp. Obsidian (9 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Freshwater pearl (9 gp). Red-brown spinel (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears skinny pants and wears a grey and brown robe with the hood down. His tied-back hair is red. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Shepherd they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Spice Merchant, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 4 Smokesticks.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears an entirely grey suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has a very tight haircut. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 600 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Black opal (800 gp). Blue sapphire (800 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. She has shaved her head bald. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She tends to her Stableman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born into a rich family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Justice. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 2200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

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. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. 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 has passion for adventuring and risk; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 70 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp).