Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has dyed his greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a Mortician, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and expand his business

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a fancy pastel dress, she is not a threatening figure. Her red fur has been sun bleached extensively. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Soapmaker. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Human people; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She has wavy brown hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. 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: A rival would like her out of the picture; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This eastern man wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His clothes are grease stained in places. He keeps his long red crest kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: This man wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His head has been shaved. He has violet eyes and a grey hat with a pastel feather.

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 able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 Scribe. He's also a talented Healer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears his red hair up. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Chem was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Dyer for hire.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her copper crest is matted, messy, and big. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: She got into the Cook business at a young age. Her childhood dream was to be a Knight, but she was a colossal failure. Recently the stress of being a Cook has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has moderate length auburn hair. His green eyes peer out from beneath his small white hat.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of drow once and for all.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his mother's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered drow who tried to eat his hand. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many drow want him driven away.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Cynical, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His silver hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 sp.