Description: A middle-aged man, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants, and is pretty ugly. He has a very tight haircut. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 7000 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Hematite (7 gp). White pearl (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. Her bronze crest is braided into rings. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. The war was a terrible time for her, and Synthrin does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Guardian, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 400 pp. Zircon (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Hematite (4 gp). Black star sapphire (1600 gp). Fire opal (1600 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Malachite (4 gp). Blue star sapphire (1600 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (160 gp). Coral (160 gp). Onyx (40 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Sybil was born the youngest of three triplets. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has worked as a Farmer like her mother before her.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 8000 gp. Silver ewer (30 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (30 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull grey iron scale mail. She has shaved her head bald. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Tiefling companion (her 'brother'). She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 8000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (150 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (2000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (150 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears suspenders and violet workpants. His shirt is blue, and he wears a heavy violet leather apron most of the time. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His ears are large.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. When Ahvain reached his early adolescence his Half-Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 9000 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Pink pearl (70 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Sard (70 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). Coral (70 gp). Golden pearl (70 gp). White opal (900 gp). Silver pearl (70 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Sard (70 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (12 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Azurite (12 gp). Iolite (70 gp). Tourmaline (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1400 gp). Deep blue spinel (1400 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Jasper (70 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (12 gp). Fire opal (900 gp). Black pearl (1400 gp). Black opal (900 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Theirastra was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Rose (60 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1200 gp). Aquamarine (1200 gp). Black star sapphire (1000 gp). Eye agate (11 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Amber (40 gp). Coral (40 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Rose (60 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 3000 gp. Blue quartz (12 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Alexandrite (400 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Star rose quartz (80 gp). Jet (140 gp). Amber (140 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Emerald (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (400 gp). Obsidian (12 gp). Chrysoberyl (140 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.