Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears suspenders and brown workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. His brown fur is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. 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 has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a scimitar on her belt. With bright auburn hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist, Professionalism. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 70 gp. Red garnet (40 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. She wears a tan Stetson hat and tan clothes. She has a hunchback. She wears her chestnut hair down. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shamil 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 Shamil. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing a tight brown one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has moderate length silver hair. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gardain fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 3'4" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He wears his blonde hair up. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. Being a Butcher kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 60 gp. Amethyst (120 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a yellow vest and prefers brown and white shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. A true patriot, Herleva would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. A friendly and beautiful Human, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 110 gp. Silver pearl (120 gp).

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She has dyed her greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. She has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She is a Yochlol in disguise. Salanop was born on a far western desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Performer. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scimitars and sais. His golden hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

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 graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Just what you see.