Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a brown suit, tan shirt, and black tie, and he perpetually has his club ready. His hair is cut close to his head. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. 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: Revenge; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 2'11" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She tends to wear a red poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She is a great chef.

History: Vani was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has worked as a Seamstress like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is grey, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. He is bald on top and has large white tufts of hair around his ears. He has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Mentor. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. He carries with him a set of pickaxes on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His silver hair is braided into rings. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

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 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He found a children's book about a Halfling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Banded mail. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a black cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair is red and very short. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Astaro lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Shoemaker father left her crippled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Cartwright and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: In love, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 200 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor, and carries falchions. Her hair is black and very short. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Fortune-teller. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born in the west. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. Her hair is black, silky, and of moderate length. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever she goes.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears baggy red pantaloons and a grey scarf. Her red hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Gifted from a young age, Anne studied abroad. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. She tends to her Blacksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a blacksmith and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is a husky woman, who wears a white collared shirt and brown skirt. She accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40 pp.