Description: He is a husky man, who wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His golden hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and someone believes him a fraud

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 800 sp. Coral (160 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has silver hair. His violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He takes great joy in being the best Carpenter in town.

History: Born to a Shipwright, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Erdan grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Erdan. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and expand his business

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This eastern woman wears a tight fitting blue shirt and pants. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Mayor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: Standing 4'10", this woman wears bulky tan painted plate armor. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Shava embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Shava reached her early adolescence her Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She struck the Cook job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 80 pp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull white iron scale mail. Her silver hair is braided into rings. Her half smiles and brown eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was born in the east. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of giants may trigger it at times.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. 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. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Roywyn was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Many giants want her driven away.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 240 gp. Jade (140 gp).

Description: She wears red painted combat armor at almost all times. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She has blonde hair. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 390 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (500 gp). 1 Crowbar.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has no hair. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. 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 was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 3'2" and wears suspenders and tan workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Fibblestib enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Miner arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 190 gp.