Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears an entirely white suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 500 pp. Eye agate (5 gp). Silver pearl (110 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). White pearl (110 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Onyx (60 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a grey coat over a pastel low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon his head. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

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

Possessions: 5000 gp. Jasper (60 gp). Hematite (16 gp). Rose (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'0" and muscular, this southern woman wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has slicked back brown hair. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Optimist. Bonds: In love, Nature, Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her chestnut hair up. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born at the edge of vast island. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp).

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears bulky white painted plate armor, marred by beers. Her wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Verna has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1100 pp. Peridot (60 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Violet garnet (900 gp). Rich purple corundum (800 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is dressed in a clean white cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears her brown hair up. She has blue eyes.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Fistula was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 5000 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Black pearl (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'0" and wears a worn and beaten armor. His long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 1000 gp. Alexandrite (300 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Moss agate (5 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Bloodstone (40 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Rich purple corundum (600 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Moonstone (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (90 gp). Azurite (5 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Star ruby (600 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Deep blue spinel (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp).