Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears tattered old clothes. He has orange fur. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her crest, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Herbalist and was forced into it by her family; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'4" and is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. His left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Doctor arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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: Wants to work out more often; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this western man has the majority of his body covered in plate. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Shipwright. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born into a rich family. 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. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 800 sp. Moss agate (9 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a brown shirt with thin pastel vertical stripes and grey pants, and is pretty ugly. His golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Fearful, Mundane. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 130 gp. Moss agate (15 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is dressed in an above average manner, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her fur, while still mostly orange, has prominent grey streaks. Her amber eyes peer out from beneath her wide-brimmed brown hat.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Shadow was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Shadow never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She carries with her a set of maces on her belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. Her bronze crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Born to a Marshal, her father struggled to pay the bills. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Scribe hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jheri fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown shirt, with a violet mid length shorts with violet tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Body Guard business.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Body Guard. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 2 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a brown coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He has a hunchback. His auburn hair is singed and shortened. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Fallond 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 would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Fallond was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 230 gp. 2 Holy water.