Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He wears his chestnut hair down. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He uses divination through singing.

History: Balam lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 150 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. His black hair is knotted and matted. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, orcs burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the north, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying north to reunite his family. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 160 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside her partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: She is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears a worn and beaten armor. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Eloise lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She has achieved small success as a Actor.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Actor

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

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born to a Apothecary, his father struggled to pay the bills. 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 Interpreter. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Family, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 40 pp. Jet (120 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a longsword, but if one is not available he will default to his shield. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He also hits on men, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gildmak isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was born in the west. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Gildmak never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tan tunic with brown highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. His black hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Wobbles lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Wobbles took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She has styled her dark red hair well, parting it to the right. Her black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She bought a glaive and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Wants a kiss.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.