Description: He is in excellent shape and wears dark leathers with embroidery. His silver crest is greasy and uncared for. He has red eyes and a black hat with a brown feather.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Bricklayer born in the past three hundred years. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: Gifted from a young age, Arjhan studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a simple white robe with green stripes complete with hood. Her blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. She has wavy silver crest. Her ears are large.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her father worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled father and took her father's old job. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 150 gp. Carnelian (20 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. She has no crest. Her eyes are red.

Personality: Jaxi wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Jaxi never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Disciplined, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (120 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She prefers to wear flannel. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gaaki fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 2000 cp. Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has moderate length brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Priest. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 sp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. He has chestnut hair. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Nim embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Nim hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. After a long history of fighting, Nim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp).

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Junk Dealer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He became a Junk Dealer soon after.

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

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. She is an epitome of beauty. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp).