Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is renowned for her bright black dresses and hats. Her tied-back hair is golden. Her half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Mentor, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. 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, Cumpen is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Cumpen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She worked as a nervous Fletcher and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: In love, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a black coat over a white low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He wears his copper crest down. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Soapmaker who has hired him part-time. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Greethen hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy golden stubble. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has a hunchback. He has golden hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born into a rich family. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Beggar work with an outfit from a few towns over. Beggar work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He carries with him a set of rapiers, each one with a amber on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Knight. He tends to his Knight job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His yellow fur is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His eyes are copper and catlike.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Tailor but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. Her hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Oppah isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. 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 was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, In love, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. His beige fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Brewer

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

Possessions: 30 gp.