Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a brown tunic with grey highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson brown hat.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: Helja was born with her mother's beautiful face. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 gp. Eye agate (10 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears his auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Thamior hails from a village terrorized by orcs. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Thamior was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He carries with him a set of whips on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has worked as a Guard like his mother before him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She wears her brass crest up. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Soapmaker who has hired her part-time. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Findex is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Gifted from a young age, Findex studied abroad. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To settle down with her crush; and she has a crush on the local engraver

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fisher. Her dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her skin is flawless and her red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

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. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's in love; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 2000 cp. 2 Holy water.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He keeps his chestnut hair in a pixie cut. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: Born to a pair of adventurers, Tod grew up listening to his mother's many stories. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Tod alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her purple hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gifted student she started as a Cartwright, but she got bored and became a Gardener. She tends to her Gardener job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Gardener responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greataxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her head has been shaved. Her fierce violet eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Sumnes was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her mother was employed at, doing general labor. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She dresses in grey turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with blue slacks. Her brown hair is lengthy. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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: Money/treasure; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 70 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.