Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her black hair is greasy and uncared for. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Engong embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. After a long history of fighting, Engong and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, Disease. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2700 sp.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Detective. She carries a battered mace and tarnished kukri as well. Her long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dragonborn in existence. She is a great chef.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Synthrin was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Synthrin fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'9". She wears dark leathers with embroidery, and her gloved hand is found clutching a morningstar. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Butcher. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Helgret lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Helgret liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Bonds: Job, Slave, Family, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 380 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she prefers to wear flannel, and is pretty ugly. Her brown hair is long and unkept. She has hazel eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When Shava reached her early adolescence her Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south.

Ideals: Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 250 gp. Star ruby (400 gp). Blue star sapphire (400 gp).

Description: This fat northern man has a bulbous nose and wears long strands of amethyst and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Nordak was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 18000 cp.

Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His white hair is singed and shortened. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: John hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. John is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She has wavy auburn hair. She is baby faced.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Ella was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her childhood dream was to be a Carter, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Detective.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: She wears a fancy yellow dress. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly sais and ceremonial daggers. Her black hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. In her 19th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Flaws: Fearful, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He prefers to wear flannel. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are likewise white.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to brigands.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 130 gp. White pearl (120 gp).