Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. This brown eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Shy, Insane, Hedonist, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 3000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1100 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (1000 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. His black hair is singed and shortened. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: Hobart wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Druid, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Halflings.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 6000 gp. Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Freshwater pearl (16 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Banded agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Red garnet (120 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Blue quartz (16 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his mace with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered hand crossbow and tarnished mace as well. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 9000 gp. Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (40 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled anklet (2000 gp). A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (40 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1000 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (170 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (170 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (170 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (40 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She stands about 5'7" and wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Actor business.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 900 pp. Malachite (6 gp). Citrine (80 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She got into the Knight business at a young age. 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 Knight. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature dagger.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 4000 gp. Citrine (30 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Jet (60 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Jacinth (8000 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Malachite (7 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Sard (30 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Onyx (30 gp). Amber (60 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times, and carries flails. His brass crest is heavily combed to the right. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's in love; and he wants to get laid

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Onyx (50 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Moss agate (5 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His long silver hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Pirithin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bounty Hunter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bounty Hunter and was forced into it by his family; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (90 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp).