Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears baggy brown pantaloons and a pastel scarf. He keeps his gray fur in a flapper bob. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. Emerald was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Emerald decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Miller

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 110 gp. Tourmaline (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her crossbow, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull brown iron scale mail. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She has white eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Rieta abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She tends to wear a large blue jacket. She sports auburn long hair. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears professional attire. Her hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Spice Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her brown hair is still thick. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is mildly Halfling supremacist, though she does not identify as such. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Nikki was born with her mother's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, 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. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Elven compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to elven people

Flaws: Insane, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zanna fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and tridents. His orange fur is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Beast's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge, and she perpetually has her greatsword ready. She keeps her golden hair in a flapper bob. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Anne was born with her mother's beautiful face. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Elven companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Religious, Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1700 sp.