Description: He stands about 5'1" and wears suspenders and black workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He keeps his long blonde hair kept up in a rat tail. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the west. As a young child he wandered into the woods despite his father's warnings against it. Afterwards he claimed he had encountered drow who tried to eat his hand. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He wants revenge against drow.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. He has black hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Hunter born in the past three hundred years. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: The child of a Sage, who enjoyed hunting, Whurbin was taken on many hunting expeditions. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 120 gp. Red spinel (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a simple brown robe with black stripes complete with hood. Her chestnut hair is knotted and matted. Her eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Engraver profession.

History: The child of a Engraver, who enjoyed hunting, Fallthra was taken on many hunting expeditions. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She struck the Adventurer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He likes to wear white tank tops with pastel pants. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is blonde and very short. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: The child of a Ruler, who enjoyed hunting, Radomir was taken on many hunting expeditions. In his 13th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She carries a battered hammer and tarnished bow as well. Her blonde hair is lengthy. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the east were limited. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears a yellow top hat and yellow clothes, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He keeps his blonde hair in a pixie cut. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. The war was a terrible time for him, and Theobald does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: She is wearing a tight white one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. She sports blonde long hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She's also a talented Spice Merchant, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted, Impeccable. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a white coat. His black hair is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and revenge

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 500 gp. Rose (30 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Rose (30 gp). Amber (60 gp). 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Superior lock. 1 Good lock.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her red fur is matted, messy, and big. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was born into a rich 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 Herbalist. She has achieved small success as a Herbalist.

Motivation: To be a Stylist again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 130 gp.