Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears tan trousers with green and white striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (900 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has styled his silver hair well, parting it to the right. His brown eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He became a Bricklayer soon after.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he has a crush on the local marshal

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Immigrant, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'4" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a tan coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. Her hair is brown and curly. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 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: She was born on a small isolated farm. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Cartwright hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature, Poor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He keeps his chestnut hair in a flapper bob. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He hates Humans with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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: His religion dominates his actions.

Flaws: Racist, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp).

Description: She wears green trousers with grey and yellow striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She carries with her a set of kukris on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She has styled her blue crest well, parting it to the right. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: Savaran lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 800 sp. Citrine (40 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: This malnourished man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gifted student he started as a Mercenary, but he got bored and became a Detective. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (16 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a tan coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon his head. His moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears yellow trousers with pastel and green striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His red hair is thinning but still full. His ears are large.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born into a rich family. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she is wearing a long, pastel, dusty cloak. Her red fur is singed and shortened. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.