Description: He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His hair is brown and very short. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of illithids may trigger it at times.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he wants revenge against illithids

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: Onyx (20 gp).

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a pastel coat. She is portly but not overly obese. Her orange fur is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Moon was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Animal Trainer. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is golden and curly. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. 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: Dara was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Expand her business; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Family, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown tunic with violet highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His golden hair is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

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. 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: He was born in a small desert village. A gifted student he started as a Bellfounder, but he got bored and became a Actor. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to be a bellfounder again

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he usually wears his black robe and has his bastard sword always slung over his shoulder. His gold crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. He has red eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He's in love.

Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Has a crush, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 200 sp.

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 a fancy violet suit. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Uthemar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 12th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Uthemar alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Uthemar was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Through the years after Gilbert was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Gilbert's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Gilbert and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Half-Elves. Her skin is dark but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She wears a yellow armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. Her golden hair is knotted and matted. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Avice lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Avice 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 Avice. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 160 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: This woman wears a simple violet robe with tan stripes complete with hood, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her arcane abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She's also a talented Actor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 2300 sp.