Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair is long and silver with streaks of blonde, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is blonde, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Through the years after Oskar was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Oskar's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She sports a flattop hair cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Mercenary business.

History: Her mother raised her in a mountain cabin. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Professionalism, Persistence. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'7" and tends to wear a large blue jacket. Her hair is long and chestnut with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small blue clips. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady violet eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She now mingles about in high society.

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

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a spear, but if one is not available she will default to her rapier. Her silver hair is greasy and uncared for. Her blue eyes peer out from beneath her small grey hat.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears brown robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a longbow, but if one is not available she will default to her ceremonial dagger, she is not a threatening figure. She wears her blonde hair up. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in the south to a Miller, Bolhild learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She found a children's book about a Dwarf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: She is dressed in an above average manner. She carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished sickle as well. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Dwarf in existence. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (30 gp).

Description: This malnourished man tends to wear a large brown jacket. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Bowyer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and expand his business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears an entirely black suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a hunchback. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady white eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.