Description: He stands about 3'1" and wears tattered old clothes. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Blacksmith. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born into a rich family. His childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but he was a colossal failure. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Blacksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Blacksmith responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 390 gp. Moonstone (80 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Smoky quartz (80 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. She carries a battered spear and tarnished shield as well. Her long red crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This late middle aged woman likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is white, silky, and of moderate length. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates Halflings with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: Old masterpiece painting (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (120 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Gifted from a young age, Bardryn studied abroad. After coming to the age of reason, Bardryn took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She wears a simple grey robe with green stripes complete with hood. She wears her silver hair up. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. 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: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Through the years after Alice was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Alice's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is content

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Locksmith arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She uses divination through singing.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents were killed by drow in a raid when she was still a young child. The drow captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many drow want her driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: White pearl (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has moderate length black hair. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Silaqui has worked very hard to control her curse. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she is greedy

Ideals: Pacifist, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Priest. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and balancing her hectic life and new priest responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.