Description: With brown face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears professional attire. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Halfling in existence. 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, Bertram is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears an entirely tan suit with green socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her tied-back hair is black. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Born to a Healer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. While she appears to be a normal Elf, 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Shava was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is short and silver. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He 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. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His hair is long and white with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 130 gp. Chrysoberyl (90 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'5" and has the majority of his body covered in plate. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has white hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (20 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (20 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (400 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His black hair is still thick. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. During his travels, Broce and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Broce discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Broce fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Depressed, Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. 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 loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Her first spouse was a Healer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Insomniac, Shy. Bonds: Family, Military, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 110 pp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Gomory is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is greedy; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: An older woman who has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her pastel robe, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Dell was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 900 sp.