Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears baggy red pantaloons and a black scarf. Her hair is short and auburn. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. A true patriot, Nikki would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nikki grew up listening to her father's many stories. She has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature hammer.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. Her hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small grey clips. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She dropped out of school to support her sick mother, and resented it. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a simple black robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He was born in the east, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies, Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available she will default to her bastard sword. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. Her blue eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Animal Trainer profession.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Dilettante work with an outfit from a few towns over. Dilettante work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dilettante.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Barber. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Barber. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Barber for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic, Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: He usually wears his black robe and has his hammer always slung over his shoulder. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gold.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Mamnen was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and brown handkerchief worn on his left side. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His skin is flawless and his violet eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He worked as a nervous Body Guard and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Slave Trader, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears skinny pants and wears a black and green robe with the hood down and is in decent physical shape. Her auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. 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: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.