Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears grey trousers with yellow and red striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His blonde hair is singed and shortened. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his small grey hat.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She got into the Crown-heir business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Performer, but she got bored and became a Crown-heir. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: Coral (50 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has violet eyes.

Personality: Charles hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has dedicated himself to building a better village for his children.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2900 sp.

Description: A 6'6" eastern man, he wears a black broad hat and black clothes. He wears a colorful flower in his gold crest. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. 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: Further expansion of business; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He wears a red vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His violet leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his red boots flare out at the collars. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He keeps his auburn hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He comes from a rich western family. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. After months of barely getting by, Ortegar managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose black pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed quarterstaff, just in case. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. This hazel eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Anthony hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Miner they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Carter, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This western woman wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dragonborns in the west were limited. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 sp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His red hair is braided into rings. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Sheggen has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sheggen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 130 gp. Brown-green garnet (70 gp).

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His black hair is heavily combed to the left. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. 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 was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.