Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his broad blue hat.

Personality: He is mildly Gnome supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was raised in a mountains tribe. Paggen was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Paggen decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

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.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 40 pp. Sard (20 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Morkral is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Morkral hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. A few years later when the east 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 share knowledge with the world; and many dire rats want him driven away

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 260 gp. Finely wrought small gold bracelet (60 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (40 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp).

Description: She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has dyed her greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. Lezre enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lezre grew up listening to her mother's many stories. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Insane, Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. She keeps her brown hair in a pixie cut. Her black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. A friendly and beautiful Tiefling, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He wears a red costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He carries with him a set of shields, each one with a topaz on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: Watson was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He worked as a nervous Barkeep and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Farmer, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is auburn and curly. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Farmer arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she is content

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Greedy, Mundane. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born in the west to a Locksmith, Taklinn learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Locksmith. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and balancing his hectic life and new locksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Secretive, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her head has been shaved. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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 is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 3000 cp. Peridot (30 gp).