Description: She is scrawny and has patchy red stubble. She likes to wear green tank tops with grey skirt. She has a hunchback. Her red hair is greasy and uncared for. She has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Akta is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Akta was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has been saving her money to try and buy her sister's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and an old rival family wants her found

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: He has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his tan robe. With a patchy red beard and wild red hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Carter for the past few years.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 120 gp. Tourmaline (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He is wearing a long, red cloak. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Burto lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Stylist work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stylist work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. 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. Burto fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Family, Job, Debt. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she likes to wear red tank tops with white skirt. She wears her auburn hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her green eyes dart from person to person.

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 is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Wella was born in the north. At a young age she loved to build and create. Being born in the north, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the north for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and she made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Debt. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She dresses like a well dressed Barkeep does. She keeps her long red hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She was born in a small forest village. She worked as a nervous Barkeep and found it very stressful. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears skinny pants and wears a white and black robe with the hood down. She has slicked back brown hair. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman, marred by beers. His hair is long and black with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

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

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His hair is purple and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was granted martial powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is dressed in an above average manner. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His white hair is still thick. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Blacksmith arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 3 Alchemist’s fire.