Description: 5'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is dressed in a clean pastel cloak covering his clean studded leather. His orange fur is knotted and matted. His eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with poetry. He constantly tries to fill his life with poetry. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and he has a crush on the local farmer

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 pp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Hunter lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 2600 sp. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Smokesticks. 1 Holy water.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft white waves gently in the breeze. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bookbinder business.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. He has wavy black crest. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

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. A freak accident while working with his Herbalist father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Born to a Knight, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Stylist and was forced into it by her family; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 50 pp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a simple grey robe with white stripes complete with hood. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Conrad embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Conrad was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Conrad was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. 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: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a tan tunic with grey highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His amber eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gennal is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: She stands about 3'1" and wears baggy red pantaloons and a black scarf. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is content; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane, Impulsive, Mundane. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy golden hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Professionalism, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Hematite (8 gp).