Description: This exceptionally lanky man prefers to wear black clothing when he does not wear armor. His copper crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Gardener. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Racist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears baggy violet pantaloons and a green scarf. Her brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The war was a terrible time for her, and Mary does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed, Disease. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. His black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Melech was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 30 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (90 gp).

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, violet shirt, and tan tie. His hair is chestnut and curly. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Scrag hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Scrag is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He wears a fancy white suit, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He takes great joy in being the best Blacksmith in town.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He struck the Blacksmith job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and balancing his hectic life and new blacksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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 is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Immigrant, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Beloril was born the youngest of three triplets. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a mayor and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A 3'4" eastern man, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving The war was a terrible time for him, and Jebeddo 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 the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 Stableman. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 250 gp.