Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His blue leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He has copper crest. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. Shamash enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Shamash has worked very hard to control his curse. He guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is greedy

Flaws: Disease, Hedonist, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears baggy violet pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears a mask on 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 plays an instrument quite well.

History: She comes from a rich western family. Her childhood dream was to be a Bather, but she was a colossal failure. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'4". She wears a fancy blue dress. She sports silver long hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Antinua has worked very hard to control her curse. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: This eastern man wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. His clothes are grease stained in places. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. 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 resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the east were limited. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries a battered pickaxe and tarnished scimitar as well. He has wavy cinnamon fur. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. When Shivering reached his early adolescence his Tabaxi mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He struck the Servant job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: To be a Carter again; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 300 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). 2 Alchemist’s fire. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat. His blonde hair is cut short. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 110 gp. Moonstone (50 gp).

Description: A woman with a calm yet intense air about her, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gray.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Tawar was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Through the years after Tawar was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Tawar's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Locksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 110 gp. 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: 5'0" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. He has gray eyes and a yellow hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. Being a Butcher kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears just a grey suit. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her head has been shaved. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. After coming to the age of reason, Liftrasa took it upon herself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: She would like to get married and retire; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 310 gp.