Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. He found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Bookbinder and was forced into it by his family; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She hates Dwarves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Diesa lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Racist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Server

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man wears dark leathers with embroidery and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair is braided into rings. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Farmer who has hired him part-time. 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, Rael is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are red.

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 submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears a grey wide-brimmed hat and grey clothes. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He has achieved small success as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: A roughly beaten golden orb (180 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a grey collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He wears his black hair up. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the south. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to dire rats.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Bonds: Enemies, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 100 pp. Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'7". She prefers to wear flannel. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Dragonborn people; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Fearful, Secretive, Racist. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Amber (80 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has black hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. 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 greedy; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 20 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp).