Description: This late middle aged man wears a fancy yellow suit and is in decent physical shape. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Ernest was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ernest fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Passionate, Fighting. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Slave. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She usually wears her blue robe and has her rapier always slung over her shoulder. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her rapier, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Mardnab grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Mardnab. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 700 sp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a simple black robe with yellow stripes complete with hood. Her rusty crest is singed and shortened. Her gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born into a rich family. After coming to the age of reason, Megren took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has worked as a Armorer like her mother before her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and carries sickles. Her broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Miller. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has never given up on her singing dream.

Motivation: She wants revenge against drow; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This western man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a long auburn beard with little hanging trinkets. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Herbalist. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Oskar hails from a village terrorized by giants. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, giants burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Oskar never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He wants revenge against giants.

Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A 2'11" northern man, he is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His red hair is heavily combed to the left. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He takes great joy in being the best Ploughman in town.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: A deep hatred of drow; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Job, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His blue hair is still thick. His black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Tiefling in existence. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Barrister hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Quarion was born on a far eastern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Marshal. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he's in love

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 5000 cp. Citrine (60 gp).