Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with blue colored cloaks and clothing. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Nim was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his father was employed at, doing general labor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He tends to his Guard job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (120 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His ears are large.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 30 pp. Rose (70 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a white vest and prefers blue and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He has wavy auburn hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

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. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and gnomish compassion

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He usually wears his grey robe and has his dagger always slung over his shoulder. His white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1900 sp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her brown hair is wavy and long. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears long strands of sapphire and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has moderate length silver hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bowyer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and money/treasure

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her red eyes.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Armara was born with her father's beautiful face. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A 6'5" western man, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. His bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While he appears to be a normal Dragonborn, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She keeps her cinnamon fur in a flapper bob. Her eyes are likewise copper.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Silent is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 100 gp.