Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Jeweler but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Valida was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She tends to her Jeweler job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has golden hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Halander was born with his mother's beautiful face. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This light-skinned female wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has a very tight haircut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He stands about 5'2" and wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in the west to a Adventurer, Theren learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 30 gp. Jet (160 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'1". He is typically in his Body Guard uniform, and his gloved hand is found clutching a longsword. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He prefers to wear violet pants and tee shirts. He has moderate length auburn hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Koeth hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Spice Merchant but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born in the south. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Artistic, Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp. Tourmaline (100 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has wavy auburn hair. His green eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. After a long history of fighting, Tomi and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 70 gp. Rhodochrosite (6 gp).

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her yellow fur is heavily combed to the right. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job, Religious, Military, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.