Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has blue hair. Her gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Pink pearl (130 gp). 1 Thunderstones.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears tattered old clothes, and is pretty ugly. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She got into the Mortician business at a young age. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Mortician. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has blonde hair. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is a great chef.

History: Gifted from a young age, Gurdis studied abroad. When Gurdis reached her early adolescence her Dwarf 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 left for the north, certain she would find work there.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp). 1 Silver holy symbol.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. His hair is blonde and very short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Vanuath wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Vanuath took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up scimitar and armor he uses now. He bought a scimitar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To protect his home; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She has a missing right arm. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a green coat. She wears a colorful flower in her chestnut hair. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gold eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Shax was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. She is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around her ears. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. 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: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, In love. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Geva is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Geva was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Spice Merchant. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Geva fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Optimist, Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This man wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 4000 cp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a green tunic with blue highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His half smiles and white eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A freak accident while working with his Interpreter mother left him crippled. He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 210 gp.