Description: A moderately attractive man, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull brown iron scale mail. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. His black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired him part-time. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 600 sp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (50 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Salanop was born with her father's beautiful face. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Interpreter they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Performer, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her white hair is singed and shortened. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Nedda isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She takes great joy in being the best Beggar in town.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Nedda was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. A gifted student she started as a Slave Trader, but she got bored and became a Beggar. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and white robe with the hood down. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Bilbron's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He worked as a nervous Spy and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 7000 cp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Elf, and stands approximately 4'11". He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during, and his gloved hand is found clutching a quarterstaff. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and revenge

Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 80 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his right hand. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. He has amber eyes and a blue hat with a black feather.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: She is a husky woman, who is dressed in an above average manner. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: Sarah was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. She 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. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 110 gp. Freshwater pearl (10 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears long strands of amber and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her hair is white and very short. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Millicent was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Dragonborn companion (her 'brother'). She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shortspear.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 30 pp. Peridot (30 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears bulky brown painted plate armor. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Morkral hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He found a children's book about a Dwarf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Morkral never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He's in love; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Slave, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.