Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a glaive, but if one is not available he will default to his pickaxe. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 9000 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. His yellow fur is still thick. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Tiefling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Tiefling doctor. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 8000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This western woman is dressed in earthy colors with a red and green handkerchief worn on her left side. Her clothes are grease stained in places. With wild red hair. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 21000 gp. Banded agate (11 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Red-brown spinel (50 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Silver pearl (50 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Sard (60 gp). Blue quartz (11 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Tourmaline (50 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Rhodochrosite (11 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Golden yellow topaz (700 gp). Jet (50 gp). Azurite (11 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Sard (60 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Moss agate (11 gp). Smoky quartz (60 gp). Rose (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (50 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Engong is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the east were limited. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10000 gp. Black pearl (600 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Rose (30 gp). Red spinel (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Moss agate (7 gp). Sardonyx (30 gp). Eye agate (7 gp). Hematite (7 gp). Obsidian (7 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Carnelian (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Jet (60 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Azurite (7 gp). Violet garnet (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp). Rose (30 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is in excellent shape and dresses well, wearing grey shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. A gifted student she started as a Courier, but she got bored and became a Mercenary. She struck the Mercenary job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Jeweled anklet (4000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (60 gp). Jeweled gold crown (5000 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (5000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a old dungeon. He would wander through that old dungeon and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Paelias took refuge in the old dungeon and found the beat up crossbow and armor he uses now. He bought a crossbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Nature, Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, marred by chocolates. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Druid school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 7000 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (150 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1000 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.