Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Azzakh was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a yellow shirt, with a brown mid length shorts with brown tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Tanner. He tends to his Tanner job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Tanner and was forced into it by his family; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a red poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has no hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. Her first spouse was a Merchant, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull black iron scale mail. Her hair is long and silver with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Elven conditions. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

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 a strong sense of loyalty to half-orc people

Flaws: Depressed, Racist, Secretive. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied southern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: Astaro was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Being a Miller kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 7000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He wears baggy grey pantaloons and a brown scarf, marred by beers. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gynnie isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She worked as a nervous Fisher and found it very stressful. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Many illithids want her driven away; and expand her business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a brown shirt, with a pastel mid length shorts with pastel tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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, Dean is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A freak accident while working with his Weaver father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 5000 cp. Citrine (80 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She wears her white hair up. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is a Locksmith first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Reeza was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the south were limited. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature scythe.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Locksmith and was forced into it by her family; and regain custody of her daughter

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Jet (90 gp).