Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His hair is cut close to his head. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 500 sp. 3 Holy water.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His white leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. His crest is gold, silky, and of moderate length. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 120 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (180 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and blue robe with the hood down. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Rolen was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Rolen decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He has achieved small success as a Fortune-teller.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He is renowned for his bright black suits and hats, marred by teas. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He hates Half-Orcs with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born in the east. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To protect his home; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 2500 sp.

Description: He is dressed in an above average manner. He is portly but not overly obese. His bronze crest is knotted and matted. He is baby faced.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and carries nunchakus. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. He is baby faced.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. Her red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Logical, Artistic, Gifted. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Simple lock.

Description: She is lean but muscular and very much looks the part of a Herbalist. Her blonde hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born in the north. Xanaphia was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Herbalist. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Herbalist for hire.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 80 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (140 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He has wavy chestnut hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

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 Gnome in existence. 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: He comes from a rich northern family. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. 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 has money and likes to spend it; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 60 pp.