Description: He wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His crest, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the south to a Engraver, Nykkan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his father's willingness to do anything to win. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is brown, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He takes great joy in being the best Detective in town.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A freak accident while working with his Shipwright mother left him crippled. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Detective.

Motivation: Many gnolls want him driven away; and someone believes him a fraud

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (180 gp).

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His hair is blonde and curly. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Military, Slave. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Left-Handed was born with her mother's beautiful face. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Elven companion (her 'brother'). She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature sai.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 360 gp. Sard (60 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She very much looks the part of a Painter. She keeps her black hair in a pixie cut. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Carlin never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and balancing her hectic life and new painter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 1300 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has a long red ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by orcs. Nella was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This woman is very fat, and very much looks the part of a Apothecary. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is mildly Elf supremacist, though she does not identify as such. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the south to a Apothecary, Rinn learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Before the accident, she was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Orc activists. She was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Orc doctor. She struck the Apothecary job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 20 pp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a red feathered hat and red clothes and is in decent physical shape. Her hair is golden and very short. Her skin is flawless and her brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. The war was a terrible time for her, and Tyna does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is long and silver with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bookbinder business.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Persistence, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 290 gp. 4 Thunderstones.