Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Bertram will drive conversation. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Bertram hails from a village terrorized by goblins. He took after his mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, his mother taught him to defend himself. When his mother died while fighting goblins, the young Bertram began to lead the lost caravan. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her purple hair is smooth and relatively long. She is baby faced.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is an amazing painter.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her childhood dream was to be a Merchant, but she was a colossal failure. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 sp. Malachite (9 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She typically wears green cloth garments or leather armor. Her black hair is thinning but still full. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. When Kali reached her early adolescence her Tiefling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 80 gp. 2 Holy water.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She is physically well-built. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Smoking fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her head has been shaved. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many goblins want her driven away; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Jasper (40 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She left for the south, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He wears a colorful flower in his copper crest. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman tends to wear a large green jacket. Her purple hair is matted, messy, and big. Her fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Through the years after Shava was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Shava's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 50 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp).

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her nunchaku, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and many goblins want her driven away

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 70 gp. Onyx (80 gp).