Description: This northern man dresses like a well dressed Courier does. His clothes are grease stained in places. His long yellow fur is drawn into a two foot long braid. His yellow eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Courier hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 150 pp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scimitar with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born in the east to a Miner, Donella learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Gnomish conditions. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He tends to wear a large black jacket. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Through the years after Akoth was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Akoth's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. During his travels, Akoth and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Akoth discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Akoth fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears a yellow collared shirt and white pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 500 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This man very much looks the part of a Mason. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His chestnut hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. Ront enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mason.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new mason responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He tends to wear a large pastel jacket. His gray fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's in love; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She usually wears her tan robe and has her sword always slung over her shoulder. Her chestnut hair is long and unkept. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker tan hat.

Personality: She is a Barkeep first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: She was born in a small forest village. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her rapier with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Orianna lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Bellfounder, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 30 pp.