Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears bulky blue painted plate armor. Her silver hair is long and unkept. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Althaea was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Through the years after Althaea was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Althaea's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Buckler.

Description: Standing 6'1", this man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop crest cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He became a Dyer soon after.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a brown costume with the symbols of the sun god on his torso. His white fur is knotted and matted. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered writing. She tends to her Sellsword job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job, Religious. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 160 pp.

Description: He has a missing right leg. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His black hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Blacksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Blacksmith work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he is greedy

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Half-Orcs. His skin is light but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He wears a white costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Torz has worked very hard to control his curse. He's also a talented Bather, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 130 gp. Deep green spinel (160 gp).

Description: A 4'1" eastern man, he wears a fancy brown suit. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Fargrim hails from a village terrorized by goblins. 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. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and to be a healer again

Flaws: Addict, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 20 gp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His crest is green and very short. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Junk Dealer profession.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. A gifted student he started as a Junk Dealer, but he got bored and became a Bricklayer. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Job, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 200 sp.