Description: A plain young-adult man, he typically wears black cloth garments or leather armor. He has moderate length white crest. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature morningstar.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp).

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with pastel lining and desert motifs. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. 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 bought a bastard sword and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 150 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (120 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his father.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears baggy pastel pantaloons and a green scarf. His fur, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. 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: He was born into a rich family. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable, Persistence. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: He wears suspenders and grey workpants. His shirt is pastel, and he wears a heavy grey leather apron most of the time. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the left. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Spice Merchant. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Beleth was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and an old rival family wants her found

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Mentor, Nature, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Dwarven conditions. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Halfling people; and her religion dominates her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His crest is gold and curly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has achieved small success as a Fisher.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She is physically well-built. She keeps her long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Nora was born the youngest of three triplets. Nora was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Masseuse. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 6000 cp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). 1 Good lock.