Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She keeps her brass crest in a pixie cut. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her mother.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Vezera was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. A true patriot, Mary would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Mary was born the youngest of three triplets. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Jeweler they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Mayor, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Mayor and was forced into it by her family.

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Military, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He prefers to wear flannel. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and gold eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: This man loves music and to teach people music more than just about anything. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson black hat.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the west. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Laborer for hire.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her chestnut hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Melissa alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has moderate length golden hair. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Gerald was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Gerald liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: 3'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. His silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Zook grew up listening to his father's many stories. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Insane, Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he likes to wear ponchos typically of a light blue in addition to tight pants. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Glim never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and he's in love

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 330 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull black iron scale mail. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 700 sp.