Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She wears a fancy white dress. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Ekk was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Ekk never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Soapmaker and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, In love, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears tattered old clothes. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Glassblower born in the past three hundred years. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in the south to a Glassblower, Oblar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. After coming to the age of reason, Oblar took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. His blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are green.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Oloric was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Hunter. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Philantrophist, Optimist. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His childhood dream was to be a Shoemaker, but he was a colossal failure. Being a Crown-heir kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and 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: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an entirely black suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. His dark red hair is lengthy. His white unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

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 obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Unemployed arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 140 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Finely wrought small gold bracelet (50 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (50 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has shaved his head bald. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. The war was a terrible time for him, and Patrick does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Ruler for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Ruler responsibilities is difficult; and he wants revenge against gnolls

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 3'0" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears an entirely tan suit with black socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Oda reached her early adolescence her Gnome 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 now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich, Family. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a green tunic with brown highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He wears his brown hair up. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Masseuse. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears bulky pastel painted plate armor. His fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sellsword and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 90 gp. Malachite (15 gp).