Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His hair is short and red. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Alston 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 Alston. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 390 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'11" when asserting himself. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and to protect his home

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His long silver hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. 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 west. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears light armors faded through time and improper care, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 10 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Alex never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and white handkerchief worn on her right side. Her auburn hair is braided into rings. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Gunnloda abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has a crush on the local sage

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and dresses in blue turtlenecks beneath a black coat with green slacks. Her black hair is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a violet and tan handkerchief worn on her right side, and she perpetually has her scimitar ready. She has no hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Emeny's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Gardener business.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Emeny was born on a far southern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Gardener. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears tan trousers with violet and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His brown hair is singed and shortened. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Her blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 1500 sp.