Description: A 3'8" western man, he wears a blue shirt, with a black mid length shorts with black tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep hazel.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Frouse grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She has slicked back brown hair. She has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: The child of a Barkeep, who enjoyed hunting, Bilga was taken on many hunting expeditions. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light black in addition to tight pants. Her blonde hair is wavy and long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Disciplined, Opinionated, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Laborer

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

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp. Chrysoberyl (80 gp). Amber (80 gp). 1 Healer’s kit.

Description: This northern man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. His skin is flawless and his green eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a apothecary and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Deep green spinel (100 gp).

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her mace with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Bellfounder. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 3000 cp. Eye agate (12 gp).

Description: She stands about 4'7" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She has red hair. Her blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 north. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: 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. He is physically well-built. His lavender fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a card scrunchie. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. 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: Edge hails from a village terrorized by drow. At a young age his father died while driving off some drow. His mother being the stubborn sort decided to stay and helped train him in morningstar use. He has achieved small success as a Locksmith.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a violet armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. She wears her black hair down. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Through the years after Caelynn was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Caelynn's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Silk rope.