Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and he perpetually has his sickle ready. He has no hair. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 110 gp. 2 Acid flasks.

Description: He wears a grey coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Dustin will drive conversation. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. Dustin was born on a far northern forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Butcher. He bought a monstrous two handed axe and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Enemies. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp. Onyx (80 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in earthy colors with a green and grey handkerchief worn on his right side, and is pretty ugly. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are black and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and balancing his hectic life and new layabout responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She wears her blue hair down. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: Mastema was born with her mother's beautiful face. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Mastema never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 200 gp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around her neck, and a shield on her belt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and bows. Her gold crest is singed and shortened. She has a dull look in her gold eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is dressed in earthy colors with a white and grey handkerchief worn on her right side. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She has hazel eyes and a white hat with a grey feather.

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. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ovak grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She found a children's book about a Half-Orc Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 60 gp. Coral (140 gp).

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this northern man is wearing a long, green cloak. His rusty crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was raised in a plains tribe. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His brown hair is still thick. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: A powerful wizard made him what he is. Adran 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. Adran decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fletcher. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and 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: Disciplined. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat, and carries lances. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has blue eyes and a white hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his martial talents. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: Just what you see.