Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His crest is short and gold. His gold eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Guard but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He struck the Guard job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Guard

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: This eastern woman is abnormally tall. She tends to wear a large black jacket. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her gold crest is greasy and uncared for. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: She got into the Painter business at a young age. 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 Painter. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). 1 Smokesticks.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She wears her white hair down. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tattered pair of loose grey pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His blue eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with painting. He constantly tries to fill his life with painting. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Dain fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes., but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'4" when asserting herself. Her crest is silver and curly. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a yellow feather.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing music.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken from her home at a very young age. She bought a crossbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Nature, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: This southern man wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Rangrim was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Disciplined, Athletic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a quarterstaff, but if one is not available he will default to his trident. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a green cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Detective for the past few years.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head, marred by beers. He wears his white hair up in a very large beehive style do. His blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born in the south his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal dancing training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and expand his business

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 110 gp.