Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on her torso, and is pretty ugly. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time, and is pretty ugly. She wears her red crest down. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Dentratha has worked very hard to control her curse. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Mentor, In love. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'4" and dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with white slacks. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Gilthur hails from a village terrorized by brigands. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Dilettante. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Bonds: Guardian, Job, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Jet (110 gp).

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He likes to wear yellow tank tops with brown pants. His hair is golden and curly. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. 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, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ernest 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 Ernest. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Passionate. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Jade (100 gp).

Description: This woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her brown hair is well kept. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She takes great joy in being the best Mortician in town.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Mortician for the past few years.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her fur is cut close to her head. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Jade lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1900 sp. 3 Holy water.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'11" and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brown hair is braided into rings. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gerard is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: 4'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears dull brown sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed mace, just in case. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. 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: The child of a Ploughman, who enjoyed hunting, Jane was taken on many hunting expeditions. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She uses divination through singing.

History: She is a Hag in disguise. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 50 gp.