Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a worn and beaten armor. Her auburn hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

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 takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She struck the Animal Trainer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 130 gp. Carved bone or ivory statuette (50 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman has a large black mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her white robe. Her blue hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Armara took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up club and armor she uses now. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Family, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 320 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull black iron scale mail. His hair is long and silver with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. 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: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her chestnut hair is still thick. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Wella lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and a deep hatred of brigands

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 140 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, black cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady black eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. 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: He comes from a rich eastern family. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, 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 now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Black pearl (200 gp). Rose (70 gp). Chrysoprase (70 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears a simple white robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Bowyer business.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A gifted student she started as a Fortune-teller, but she got bored and became a Bowyer. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing her hectic life and new bowyer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She stands about 3'11" and wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her tied-back hair is brown. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Thodris is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Human companion (her 'brother'). Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 500 sp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His ears are large.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Drogo was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. 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.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His head has been shaved. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: Gifted from a young age, Shágflak studied abroad. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Shágflak alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 20 gp.