Description: She stands about 5'7" and is renowned for her bright brown dresses and hats. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is short and brown. Her fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She was raised in a forest tribe. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist, Impeccable. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 9000 cp. Cloth of gold vestments (110 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (110 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His clothes are grease stained in places. His golden hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 150 gp. Coral (50 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She has done her best to style her dark red hair to look like a famous performer. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Layabout born in the past three hundred years. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: Akta 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 parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and someone believes her a fraud

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 240 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a mite stocky and usually wears his green robe and has his morningstar always slung over his shoulder. He wears a colorful flower in his red crest. His eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

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. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Vrondiss 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 Vrondiss. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is content; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: He prefers to wear green pants and tee shirts. He carries with him a set of pickaxes on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Shamash was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his monstrous two handed axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shipwright who has hired him part-time. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he has a crush on the local crown-heir

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Religious, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: Jade (40 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a trident on her belt. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. In her 18th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Breastplate.