Description: He prefers to wear flannel, and he perpetually has his hand crossbow ready. His white hair is braided into rings. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. After coming to the age of reason, Aelar 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 was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor, and she perpetually has her spear ready. She keeps her lavender fur in a pixie cut. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. His first spouse was a Layabout, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has no crest. He has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. His tied-back hair is golden. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Curran liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A 6'0" western man, he wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple pastel line shooting up and back down. His black hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 1200 sp.

Description: 3'0" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a tan tunic with green highlights, and long pastel pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her hair is black and curly. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. Nissa enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a Junk Dealer, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nissa 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 Nissa. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Wymar was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 360 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (30 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She has dyed her greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Phann's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born into a rich family. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she is greedy

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.