Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His red hair is braided into rings. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. During his travels, Ralf and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Ralf discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Ralf fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This malnourished man very much looks the part of a Cartwright. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his feathered yellow hat.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Tim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His childhood dream was to be a Courier, but he was a colossal failure. He has achieved small success as a Cartwright.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses like a well dressed Marshal does. His copper crest has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Baelitae will drive conversation. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Baelitae was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Extrovert, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'1" when asserting herself. Her silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. 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: Vepar hails from a village terrorized by illithids. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and many illithids want her driven away

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: 3'3" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. With bright black hair and a scraggly beard. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Qualen speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. 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, Qualen is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears baggy green pantaloons and a tan scarf. Her silver hair is braided into rings. 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 hates illithids. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Shax was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Shax's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Shax and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Revenge; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Masseuse father left her crippled. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she has a crush on the local masseuse

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears green trousers with tan and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length rusty crest. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Flaws: Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.