Description: 3'6" and muscular, this southern man wears a tan tunic with red highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a Bellfounder, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, In love. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 5000 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (60 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (50 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a green broad hat and green clothes. She is physically well-built. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Zykroff liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 3000 gp. Rich purple corundum (800 gp). Coral (50 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Malachite (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (8 gp). Coral (50 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Pink pearl (50 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp). Zircon (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Through the years after Isabella was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Isabella's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Isabella and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

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

Possessions: 1000 pp. Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2400 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (120 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His fur is cut close to his head. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (900 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (30 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1800 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (30 gp). Jeweled gold crown (4000 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (4000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears dull grey sweaters, loose brown pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed flail, just in case. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his hazel eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Blue quartz (5 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Amber (90 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Black pearl (1100 gp). Blue star sapphire (1400 gp). Zircon (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Black star sapphire (1400 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. He carries with him a set of nunchakus, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has moderate length bronze crest. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Gorbundus enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born into a rich family. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Fearful, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Chalcedony (20 gp). Coral (60 gp). Smoky quartz (20 gp). Azurite (8 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a simple brown robe with red stripes complete with hood. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 12000 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Alexandrite (1100 gp). Golden pearl (50 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Obsidian (13 gp). Eye agate (13 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Blue sapphire (500 gp).