Description: This light-skinned male wears a brown shirt, with a yellow mid length shorts with yellow tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Dilettante who has hired him part-time. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born in the west. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dwarves in Baern's homeland. Baern decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's in love.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: This tall, slender woman wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, marred by sweets. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. 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 has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He refers to his adoptive father 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: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Being born in the south, 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 south 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. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears professional attire. Her chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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 would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a hunchback. Her white hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has hazel eyes and a blue hat with a black feather.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born in a small forest village. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her mother's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Ploughman 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 feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 120 gp. A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A 6'3" northern man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has a golden handlebar mustache and slicked back golden hair. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and a strong sense of loyalty to dwarven people

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Guardian, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears white trousers with tan and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her auburn hair in a pixie cut. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

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. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: 5'4" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Mercenary does. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his nunchaku, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. 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 is overprotective of those who hire his services. Vassago enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Vassago was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. His childhood dream was to be a Laborer, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: To protect his home; and expand his business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Guardian. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 50 gp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp).