Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is short and black. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. Paelias liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and obtaining odd cultural elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her amber eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 500 gp. Sard (30 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Jasper (30 gp). Eye agate (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a white vest and prefers green and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and is pretty ugly. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her small white hat.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Bella abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A 5'2" eastern man, he is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Shy, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is typically in his Spy uniform. He has no crest. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He got into the Spy business at a young age. A gifted student he started as a Assassin, but he got bored and became a Spy. He tends to his Spy job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spy responsibilities is difficult; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 5000 gp. Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Hematite (9 gp). Bloodstone (50 gp).

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears skinny pants and wears a white and grey robe with the hood down. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Darrow never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, In love, Debt. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bilbron grew up listening to his mother's many stories. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He tends to his Ploughman job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and violet, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the north to a Sage, Veloptima learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has worked as a Sage like her father before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Buckler.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and brown handkerchief worn on her left side. Her red hair is heavily combed to the left. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Rosalind hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her painting career. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

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. After coming to the age of reason, Rosalind took it upon herself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she's in love

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp).