Description: This man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing red cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of orcs once and for all.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist, Athletic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 390 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: She is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak, and carries scythes. Her red hair, when down, is lengthy. Her white eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took after her mother in leading caravans. Because they were valued, her mother taught her to defend herself. When her mother died while fighting drow, the young Naamah began to lead the lost caravan. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Fighting, Logical, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Enemies, Debt. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 120 gp. Chalcedony (70 gp).

Description: With yellow face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears baggy blue pantaloons and a white scarf. She has shaved her head bald. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her hazel eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the east. Because her father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. She was preparing to flee to the east, but the outbreak of war prevented her and her mother from journeying east to reunite her family. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He sports a flattop hair cut. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He hates Half-Elves with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and 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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: Standing 5'9", this man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is short and black. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a 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. He has worked as a Tanner like his father before him.

Motivation: Tiefling compassion; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 gp. 3 Holy water.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. He wears a blue top hat and blue clothes. He has a hunchback. He wears his red hair up. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When Mindartis reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. 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: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Military. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born in the east. Kristryd liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her hair is black and curly. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Breena isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Tourmaline (80 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Iolite (30 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 70. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She takes great joy in being the best Adventurer in town.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Griselda grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Griselda. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 cp.