Description: This man wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is long and chestnut with streaks of auburn, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is auburn, braided, and well cared for. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a Mayor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Thorin was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Thorin abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and expand his business

Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is violet, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time, and he perpetually has his spear ready. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Argran's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Argran liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Freshwater pearl (12 gp).

Description: This northern man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his blonde hair down. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His first spouse was a Fletcher, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her head has been shaved. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Kabbarg grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Kabbarg. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. She wears tattered old clothes, marred by chocolates. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Barbena hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. 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 with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears his silver hair down. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Half-Orc in existence. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple black robe with red stripes complete with hood. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her writing with anyone who is interested.

History: She was born in the east. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by her family; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a lance, but if one is not available he will default to his sai. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: This man loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Rolen was born with his father's beautiful face. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to pay off his debts

Bonds: Religious, Criminal record, Attractive, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 110 gp.