Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Orla hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1400 sp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). 1 Disguise kit.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Flaws: Mundane, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy gray fur. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a hunchback. His gray fur is heavily combed to the right. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Dagger lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a tattered pair of loose green pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He wears his purple hair up. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. After coming to the age of reason, Vassago took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Vassago never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, In love. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 90 pp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears white trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. He is bald on top and has large silver tufts of hair around his ears. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Lorm will drive conversation. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Lorm liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1000 cp. Moss agate (5 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. She has cinnamon fur. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Great is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. At some point she was captured by orcs and was tortured. After several years of this she finally managed to escape. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother.

Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Family, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Oloric is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Flaws: Depressed, Forgetful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is dark but he possesses many grey ritualistic tattoos. He wears bulky white painted plate armor. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. The war was a terrible time for him, and Thorpe does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born in the north to a Locksmith, Thorpe learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To be a Stableman again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sickle, but if one is not available she will default to her shield. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She hates Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Claira was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Elven conditions. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Gnomish compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 160 gp. Pink pearl (90 gp).