Description: This slender man stands about 6'2". He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red crest is long and unkept. His gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Dwarves. His skin is dark but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He keeps his brown hair in a flapper bob. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born in the north. 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. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

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

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears black trousers with brown and violet striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. Brakka enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Brakka was born with her mother's beautiful face. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Banker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His black hair is lengthy. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his broad brown hat.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. 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 was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Halfling activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Halfling doctor. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down, and is pretty ugly. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is greedy; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He dresses in violet turtlenecks beneath a red coat with pastel slacks. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has moderate length auburn hair. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to illithids.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 340 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (500 gp).

Description: An older man who wears a worn and beaten armor, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a colorful flower in his brown fur. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Shivering was born with his mother's beautiful face. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. 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 wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Religious, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 37000 sp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her rusty crest is heavily combed to the right. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born at the edge of vast mountains. Akra was born on a far northern mountains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Interpreter. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears just a black suit, and is pretty ugly. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Orcs in Oolah's homeland. Oolah decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect her home.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.