Description: He has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his pastel robe. He is portly but not overly obese. His tied-back hair is golden. His blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Heward is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greatsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. One day when Srorthen was young, his mother was sewing while trying to overcome the flu, when suddenly his mother dropped to the ground dead. His mother had died from a severe disease that was unknown to the village doctor. Srorthen was heart-stricken from the event, and his father started working long hours to provde for them. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Family, Poor, Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged man tends to wear a yellow poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He got into the Painter business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Banker, but he was a colossal failure. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away; and a deep hatred of dire rats

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She wears a white collared shirt and pastel skirt. She accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt, and she perpetually has her rapier ready. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is a Barber first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 600 sp. Brown-green garnet (130 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. She has styled her white hair well, parting it to the right. Her eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: Murook wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. She has never given up on her poetry dream.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her red hair is cut short. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a very tight haircut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Duergath hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Duergath was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Duergath was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Duergath decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He's also a talented Junk Dealer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and he perpetually has his club ready. His copper crest is braided into rings. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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 is content.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and usually wears her blue robe and has her crossbow always slung over her shoulder. She has auburn hair. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her singing with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 110 gp. Jade (100 gp).