Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His hair is long and black with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Halander is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Extrovert, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His red hair is heavily combed to the left. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Snafû speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He was born in the west. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable, Philantrophist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She stands about 6'0" and wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her fur is cut close to her head. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 130 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Religious, Poor, Family. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. White pearl (50 gp). Carnelian (70 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are hazel and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Sailor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her purple hair, when down, is lengthy. Her white eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: This woman loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the south. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Good lock.

Description: This woman wears a blue broad hat and blue clothes, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her brown hair down. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She feels kind of lost in life; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive, Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 50 gp. Banded agate (15 gp).

Description: She is renowned for her bright green dresses and hats, and she perpetually has her sword ready. She has dyed her greying green crest a little too much giving a sharp green color. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. 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. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears her auburn hair up. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. After coming to the age of reason, Ranala took it upon herself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ranala fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Occupation: Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.