Description: She is dressed in a clean green cloak covering her clean studded leather. She carries with her a set of shortspears, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears baggy brown pantaloons and a tan scarf. He is physically well-built. His hair is cut close to his head. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. 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 son.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. After coming to the age of reason, Nalral took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Healer.

Motivation: To be a Stableman again.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 110 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'1" and very much looks the part of a Ploughman. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the west. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Ploughman. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and many giants want him driven away

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a simple white robe with green stripes complete with hood. His hair is cut close to his head. He has violet eyes and a white hat with a green feather.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature flail.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Terse, Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is typically in her Herbalist uniform. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. Her violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Herbalist. She has worked as a Herbalist like her father before her.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man wears a blue coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amber on his right hand. His white hair is still thick. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He is a Priest first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He worked as a nervous Priest and found it very stressful. 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 terrified, and will act out of fear; and to be a soapmaker again

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 5'4". She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, and her gloved hand is found clutching a shortspear. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Melissa is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Melissa liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: Pâsh lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Cook hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Cook, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Bonds: Family, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 3100 sp.

Description: She is wearing a long, brown cloak. She carries with her a set of halberds on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. Her white fur, when down, is lengthy. Her eyes are yellow and beady.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Five fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of her daughter

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 700 sp.