Description: He wears a white wide-brimmed hat and white clothes. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with music. He constantly tries to fill his life with music. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 110 gp. Chrysoberyl (150 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Guardian, Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Jak lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Greedy, Insane. Bonds: Religious, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 200 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress), and carries longbows. Her tied-back hair is blonde. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. Being a Herbalist kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a fancy blue suit. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Arannis will drive conversation. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. Arannis abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

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

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Bhevek was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. In the meantime he has taken over work as a Barrister and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a blue coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. 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, Riardon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Gnomish companion (his 'brother'). He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the north were limited. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. 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 unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 200 gp.