Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

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. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 sp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with blue slacks. Her hair is short and black. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her cinnamon fur is singed and shortened. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

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 was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 130 gp. Rhodochrosite (8 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He sports tan clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His hair is silver and curly. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: This man wears a brown collared shirt and grey pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 south. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To be a Crown-heir again; and doesn't want to be a banker and was forced into it by his family

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Banker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel, and she perpetually has her lance ready. Her crest is gold and curly. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Bricklayer but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

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: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a black shirt with thin grey vertical stripes and red pants. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has gleaming, smiling black eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When Qemuel reached his early adolescence his Tiefling father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Golden pearl (130 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. She is an epitome of beauty. She has wavy chestnut hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She was taken from her home at a very young age. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to end her boredom

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military, Slave. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp).