Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he dresses like a well dressed Painter does. His brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Tim was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Painter work with an outfit from a few towns over. Painter work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Bonds: Job, Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 160 gp. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears just a green suit. She has dyed her greying copper crest a little too much giving a sharp copper color. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Daar was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She likes to wear black tank tops with brown skirt. Her blue hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a clover scrunchie. She has a dull look in her red eyes.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born in the east. Aym was born on a far eastern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Merchant. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Actor. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 270 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'6" and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To end her boredom.

Flaws: Mundane, Fearful, Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 4000 cp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'5" and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He has dyed his greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. His eyes are blue and catlike.

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 is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears a violet coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon her head. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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 does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Malquis hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'8" when asserting herself. Her tied-back hair is golden. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Dyer. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was born in the north. Rohesia 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 has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 sp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'1" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She typically wears grey cloth garments or leather armor. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise violet.

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. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Through the years after Diesa was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Diesa's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and she desires to right it; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 30 pp.