Description: This northern man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His clothes are grease stained in places. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. This brown eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born in the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Stableman. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has achieved small success as a Stableman.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Stableman responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1300 sp. 4 Antitoxin.

Description: This dark-skinned male is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Debt. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 40 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp).

Description: He is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather, and carries crossbows. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a red coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He bought a club and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave, Guardian, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: Blue quartz (16 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'2". He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and brown robe with the hood down. He wears his blonde hair up. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Fabien was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 4000 cp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a black coat. She wears a deerstalker hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are gold.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. Saphara enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has achieved small success as a Hunter.

Motivation: She's in love; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered east to less war torn lands. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 4000 cp. Chrysoberyl (160 gp).

Description: This woman wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Wella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Through the years after Wella was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Wella's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 140 gp.