Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, In love. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He wears an entirely brown suit with tan socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly crossbows and flails. His red hair is lengthy. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a Shepherd first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: Bertram lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He worked as a nervous Shepherd and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 8 years.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. She carries with her a set of sickles, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her white hair, when down, is lengthy. Her violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 900 sp. Golden pearl (100 gp). Deep green spinel (100 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He carries a battered whip and tarnished dagger as well. He keeps his golden hair in a flapper bob. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. He is portly but not overly obese. His beige fur is greasy and uncared for. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born to a Bather, his father struggled to pay the bills. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against gnolls; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Puyet is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Secretive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a mite stocky and does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His black crest is knotted and matted. His red eyes peer out from beneath his top green hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He got into the Map Maker business at a young age. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to be a tailor again

Ideals: Joker, Logical, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. Jet (60 gp). Golden pearl (60 gp). Malachite (13 gp).

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather, marred by beers. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 has worked as a Glassblower like his mother before him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Military. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 150 gp.