Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His blue crest is still thick. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 110 gp. Hematite (6 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. Her fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she is greedy

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 130 gp. Jade (80 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'3" and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. Being a Herbalist kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and she desires to right it; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 60 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears an entirely white suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His tied-back hair is chestnut. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gray eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Detective. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Masseuse. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: He wears a tan vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his tan boots flare out at the collars. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Halfling compassion.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Buckler. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rose 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 Rose. Being a Stableman kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease, Addict. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he prefers to wear flannel. He has orange fur. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cask fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and retire the richest man in the south

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Star ruby (400 gp).

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a brown collared shirt and pastel skirt. She accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her fur is red and curly. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Animal Trainer hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Chalcedony (60 gp).