Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Adam was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Weaver hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She sports a flattop fur cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Trail was born the youngest of three triplets. 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 south. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Trail never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Family, In love. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He has moderate length blonde hair. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Spice Merchant work with an outfit from a few towns over. Spice Merchant work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He struck the Spice Merchant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He is content; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1200 sp. Alexandrite (700 gp).

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a hunchback. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has black eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: Nirgel hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. Being a Ruler kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears brown trousers with yellow and green striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length white hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 3'3" and muscular, this eastern woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing tan cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She tends to her Brewer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Brewer responsibilities is difficult; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

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 wears a white shirt with thin red vertical stripes and black pants. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

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. Druuk abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. During his travels, Druuk and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Druuk discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Druuk fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is his passion; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 1000 cp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. His hair is silver and curly. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a monstrous two handed axe on his belt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.