Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair, while still mostly brown, has prominent grey streaks. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Xappan grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Xappan has worked very hard to control his curse. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and obtaining odd cultural dwarven artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 47000 sp. 3 Thunderstones. 4 Alchemist’s fire. 4 Antitoxin. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. She has brown eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Joan is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Fletcher responsibilities is difficult; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Persistence, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She prefers to wear yellow clothing when she does not wear armor. She is an epitome of beauty. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her chestnut hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She hates giants. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born in a small island village. Her childhood dream was to be a Tanner, but she was a colossal failure. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Guard responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (110 gp).

Description: He wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is chestnut and very short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He got into the Adventurer business at a young age. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 130 gp. Red garnet (80 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: With violet face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she prefers to wear brown pants and tee shirts. She keeps her long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to reunite with her absent mother

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 sp. Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears professional attire. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He takes great joy in being the best Barrister in town.

History: He got into the Barrister business at a young age. His childhood dream was to be a Bellfounder, but he was a colossal failure. He became a Barrister soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a tan costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. She carries with her a set of kukris, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. With wild chestnut hair. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Soapmaker born in the past three hundred years. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: The child of a Doctor, who enjoyed hunting, Roywyn was taken on many hunting expeditions. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Soapmaker. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: She stands about 5'9" and wears long strands of opal and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her copper eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 700 sp.