Description: A middle-aged man, he sports green clothing, slightly heavier than average wear, and is pretty ugly. His hair is purple and curly. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She dresses well, wearing green shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. She sports a flattop crest cut. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born in the east to a Banker, Dentratha learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Dentratha abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Interpreter but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Clerebold was born the youngest of three triplets. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Interpreter and was forced into it by his family; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. She wears her blonde hair down. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Gaaki reached her early adolescence her Half-Orc mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To be a Courier again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Unemployed

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

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Sailor arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Sailor. 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: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich, Job. Occupation: Sailor

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

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and is wearing a long, yellow cloak. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is a Mercenary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: The child of a Server, who enjoyed hunting, Rael was taken on many hunting expeditions. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mercenary. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 20 pp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (70 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver hair is still thick. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. 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 was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Joker. Bonds: Slave, Attractive. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Alexandrite (900 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Zircon (60 gp). 1 Smokesticks.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a green and white handkerchief worn on her right side, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'7" when asserting herself. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep black.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Her childhood dream was to be a Brewer, but she was a colossal failure. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and many dire rats want her driven away

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 310 gp.

Description: She wears a tan shirt, with a black mid length skirt with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 3'6" when asserting herself. Her white hair is still thick. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, drow burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying west to reunite her family. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.