Description: This dark-skinned male dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with grey slacks. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. 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: Joker, Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 8000 gp. Bloodstone (60 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Emerald (600 gp). Black opal (600 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Red garnet (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Peridot (60 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: Standing 4'2", this man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He wears his red hair up. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 11000 gp. Onyx (20 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (6 gp). Moonstone (20 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Fire opal (1200 gp). Sard (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Jasper (20 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). Canary diamond (4000 gp). Rose (20 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Citrine (20 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Rose (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Onyx (20 gp). Red garnet (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: 6'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is typically in her Mortician uniform. Her rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. Her gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Mortician for the past few years.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 pp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Ekk lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Ekk's homeland. Ekk decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Gardener and was forced into it by her family; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 6000 gp. Moss agate (16 gp). Black opal (400 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Fire opal (400 gp). Jet (130 gp). Obsidian (16 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Coral (130 gp). Deep green spinel (130 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (16 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Chrysoprase (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She keeps her long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Reddlepop 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 8000 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (4000 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A silver and pearl hairclip (20 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (120 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'2" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with yellow slacks. His rusty crest is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is mildly Dragonborn supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Tarhun hails from a village terrorized by brigands. His childhood dream was to be a Junk Dealer, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and many brigands want him driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 pp. Jade (140 gp). Moss agate (12 gp). Tourmaline (140 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (12 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Standing 5'5", this woman wears a tan tunic with brown highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has a long white ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Actor. She struck the Actor job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 8000 gp. White opal (1400 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). White pearl (40 gp). Emerald (1400 gp). White opal (1400 gp). Aquamarine (600 gp). Bloodstone (60 gp). Chrysoprase (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Iolite (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Rhodochrosite (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.