Description: He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, and carries whips. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Expand his business; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born into a rich family. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. 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: Money/treasure; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. After a long history of fighting, Pyntle and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 30 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (90 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: 5'1" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and brown clothes. He has beige fur. His eyes are a pleasant copper.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born in the west to a Cartwright, Kite learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a simple white robe with green stripes complete with hood. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is mildly Halfling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. A true patriot, Calcitro would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Detective.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Racist, PTSD, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 50 gp. Amber (60 gp).

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her white hair is braided into rings. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Herleva lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Bounty Hunter they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Barrister, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Barrister

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

Possessions: 500 sp. Zircon (80 gp). Silver pearl (120 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp).

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears a brown shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her yellow eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Through the years after Beast was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Beast's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beast fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'11" and likes to wear black tank tops with violet skirt. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length black hair. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Marshal. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Marshal business.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Murgen was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Rich, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.