Description: This late middle aged woman wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress) and is in decent physical shape. Her white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are likewise hazel. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dwarves in Nora's homeland. Nora decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (90 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His lavender fur is matted, messy, and big. He is baby faced.

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 does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of a Sage, who enjoyed hunting, Cloak was taken on many hunting expeditions. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature shield.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, PTSD. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 44. 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. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Mishann took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. 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 two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. 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 Barrister. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has styled his rusty crest well, parting it to the left. He has red eyes.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is a great chef.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She stands about 6'1" and prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. Her purple hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has a dull look in her white eyes.

Personality: She hates goblins. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: Born in the south to a Crown-heir, Astaro learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Astaro 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 has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and she desires to right it; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a tattered pair of loose tan pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His red hair is heavily combed to the right. He has green eyes and a tan hat with a green feather.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He got into the Sculptor business at a young age. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has achieved small success as a Sculptor.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Onyx (60 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has a good heart but also a terrible temper. She will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 18000 cp. 1 Silk rope.