Description: He wears tattered old clothes, and he perpetually has his scimitar ready. He has shaved his head bald. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to be a bounty hunter again

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 5000 cp. Red spinel (100 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a white costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His hair is long and golden with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a Fisher, his mother struggled to pay the bills. 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. After a long history of fighting, Varg and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 120 gp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is cut close to his head. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He tends to his Assassin job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Nature, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 400 sp. Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 3'5" and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She hates Gnomes with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Cumpen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her first spouse was a Spy, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature scimitar.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and she has a crush on the local spy

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. His red crest is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He was born in the south. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Sage

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a brown scarf. His hair is brown and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 40 gp. Eye agate (9 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has blue crest. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this southern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Dragonborn, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Forgetful, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. Her golden hair is matted, messy, and big. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Adventurer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Creega 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 Creega. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 90 pp. 3 Antitoxin. 2 Holy water. 3 Smokesticks.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a brown tunic with black highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He enjoys reading and quiet.

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. His childhood dream was to be a Armorer, but he was a colossal failure. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bather for the past few years.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and balancing his hectic life and new bather responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Silk rope.