Description: A middle-aged man, he wears dark leathers with embroidery, and is pretty ugly. His silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This red eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Religious, In love. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (180 gp).

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

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

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and yellow handkerchief worn on his right side, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'9" when asserting himself. He wears his chestnut hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Born to a Knight, his father struggled to pay the bills. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to be a knight again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 5000 cp. Obsidian (7 gp).

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and grey robe with the hood down. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his shortbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His golden hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Slave Trader. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Theren hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He struck the Slave Trader job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Bonds: Job, Rich, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Galinndan is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. A true patriot, Galinndan would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a black vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her black boots flare out at the collars. She has chestnut hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gold.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Criella was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is cut close to his head. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Adran lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Guardian. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her bronze crest is braided into rings. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mijira 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 Mijira. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She wears a simple pastel robe with brown stripes complete with hood. She is portly but not overly obese. She keeps her long cinnamon fur kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cloak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Banded agate (8 gp). Moonstone (80 gp).