Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sellsword. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Bloodstone (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born in the south her family was never financially stable. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the south were limited. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 100 gp. Red spinel (140 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She wears her dark red hair down. Her ears are large.

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 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: The child of southern immigrants she idolized her mother. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 10 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Vepar never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Revenge; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear flannel. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His brown hair is heavily combed to the right. 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 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 vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 280 gp. Iolite (20 gp). Azurite (6 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his nunchaku, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a cross on it. His blue hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are black and beady.

Personality: He hates Tieflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Thamuz was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Thamuz abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: An older man who dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a white coat with grey slacks, he is not a threatening figure. His hair is blue and curly. He has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. After months of barely getting by, Nicor managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 50 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'11". She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her brown fur, when down, is lengthy. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Tree was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tree fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive, Lazy. Bonds: Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is dressed in a clean black cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears a small hat to hide her balding. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her small black hat.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. 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: To unite with her sister; and she has a crush on the local guard

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 sp. Brown-green garnet (60 gp).