Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a black small hat and black clothes. He has a hunchback. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Cressel lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 17th 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. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Fearful, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scimitars and whips. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. After months of barely getting by, Dean managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and to prove his worth to the world

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She has shaved her head bald. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: 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; and retire the richest woman in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Ella isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ella was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 30 gp. Sard (60 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His red hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born in the west. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Flaws: Addict, Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She sports a flattop crest cut. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Jaxi grew up listening to her father's many stories. She found a children's book about a Dragonborn 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. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a grey shirt with thin green vertical stripes and black pants. His silver hair is unkempt and raggedy. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. Norman 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. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. His hair is silver and curly. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Hagren was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His childhood dream was to be a Unemployed, but he was a colossal failure. He has worked as a Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His cinnamon fur is greasy and uncared for. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Aura was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 Merchant. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 90 gp.