Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. 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: Ar-Pratu was born with his mother's beautiful face. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform After a long history of fighting, Ar-Pratu and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly tridents and greataxes. Her auburn hair is matted, messy, and big. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. A gifted student she started as a Carpenter, but she got bored and became a Server. She's also a talented Carpenter, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Server

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 6000 cp. Red garnet (90 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is dressed in an above average manner. She has moderate length brown hair. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Cynical, Secretive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her red hair is still thick. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: Anne was born with her mother's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Human, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: This man wears a black small hat and black clothes. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his left hand. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Tethren wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born in the east. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A 5'6" western woman, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. She has dyed her greying dark red hair a little too much giving a sharp dark red color. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. 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: She was born into a rich family. Makaria abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished sai as well. Her silver hair is still thick. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Kilia lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 Servant. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Family, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 100 pp. White pearl (40 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears long strands of opal and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has moderate length brown hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Kairon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. 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 Carpenter. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To be a Apothecary again; and balancing his hectic life and new carpenter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman prefers to wear flannel. She sports black long hair. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker white hat.

Personality: Ownka hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her poetry career. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Miller profession.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30 gp.