Description: 3'7" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He usually wears his tan robe and has his halberd always slung over his shoulder. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates dire rats. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Broce enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp. Citrine (20 gp). White opal (900 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: Shane speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and doesn't want to be a spice merchant and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has brown eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Guard. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Andraste was raised in a hard working conservative environment. 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 Guard. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 150 gp. Obsidian (11 gp).

Description: She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. Her golden hair is cut short. She has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. 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 greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 800 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (11 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. He sports a long red beard, and similarly colored long hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He worked as a nervous Laborer and found it very stressful. He struck the Laborer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Mentor, Job, Family. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He carries with him a set of rapiers on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His purple hair is heavily combed to the left. He has a dull look in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Cairn has worked very hard to control his curse. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This woman wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family 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 Animal Trainer. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she is greedy

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Citrine (30 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is lean but muscular and prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is chestnut and curly. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Slave, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 24000 sp. A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (70 gp).

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His cinnamon fur is thinning but still full. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nimble grew up listening to his mother's many stories. A gifted student he started as a Masseuse, but he got bored and became a Mason. He tends to his Mason job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 300 gp.