Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He carries a battered crossbow and tarnished greataxe as well. He wears his golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Oren enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Oren was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Gnomish activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Gnomish doctor. 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: Gnomish compassion.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist, Racist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Iolite (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears dull tan sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed sickle, just in case. Her white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She typically wears red cloth garments or leather armor. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. Rose is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Rose hails from a village terrorized by giants. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and wants to open a new tavern

Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Theodoric isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Gifted from a young age, Theodoric studied abroad. His parents enrolled him in a Barbarian school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull grey iron scale mail. Her purple hair is smooth and relatively long. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To be a Jeweler again; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker, Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 20000 sp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is silver and curly. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: Born to a Mortician, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Interpreter. She became a Interpreter soon after.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Solid gold idol (1100 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He is an epitome of beauty. With bright blonde hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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 in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. While he appears to be a normal Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 3000 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Onyx (40 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp). Blue star sapphire (1000 gp). White opal (1000 gp).

Description: This man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty white coat over it, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His auburn hair is lengthy. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He bought a pickaxe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This eastern man dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a violet coat with grey slacks. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has no hair. His red eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1100 gp. Amber (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.