Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Umpen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her orange fur is long and unkept. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep yellow.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. Leaf is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Detective work with an outfit from a few towns over. Detective work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She tends to her Detective job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Detective

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a pastel collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His black fur is heavily combed to the left. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. A gifted student he started as a Hunter, but he got bored and became a Spice Merchant. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Spice Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Isabella was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, 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 west 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. She has worked as a Mason like her father before her.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: 6'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears dull black sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed crossbow, just in case. His red hair is thinning but still full. His silver eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Andram was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He struck the Courier job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and balancing his hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 16000 sp. Red garnet (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). Lapis lazuli (9 gp). Azurite (9 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her blonde hair is cut short. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: This woman loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. A friendly and beautiful Dwarf, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1200 sp. Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he prefers to wear blue pants and tee shirts. His hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Thervan lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Thervan 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 Thervan. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He sports a flattop hair cut. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. The war was a terrible time for him, and Qualen does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 feels kind of lost in life.

Flaws: Shy, Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military, In love. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 1300 sp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep black.

Personality: Markosian wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Markosian was born with her father's beautiful face. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Map Maker like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 160 pp. Silver pearl (160 gp). Brown-green garnet (160 gp). 1 Half-Plate.