Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Ahinar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. After a long history of fighting, Ahinar and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born in the south. His childhood dream was to be a Servant, but he was a colossal failure. He struck the Detective job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a blue and tan robe with the hood down, and carries glaives. He has wavy black hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

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 loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Heian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Masseuse responsibilities is difficult; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

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. Her psionic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fletcher.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and tan robe with the hood down. He is physically well-built. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. 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: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Passionate, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Average lock.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Ribbles lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Beggar hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Criminal record, Family, Poor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Abalaba reached her early adolescence her Gnome mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: Many dire rats want her driven away; and revenge

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He is dressed in earthy colors with a red and black handkerchief worn on his left side. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With bright silver hair and a scraggly beard. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Slave, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.