Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. He has blue crest. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Kriv was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 70 gp. Jet (50 gp).

Description: She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a grey coat. She is physically well-built. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her brown eyes.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born in the east to a Shepherd, Audhild learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Shepherd.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A 5'3" eastern woman, she wears tattered old clothes. Her fur, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines yellow.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Cask was orphaned to a temple shortly after her birth. She was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above herself and to hold her god always in her heart. After a long history of fighting, Cask and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His chestnut hair is matted, messy, and big. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Blacksmith for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears professional attire. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise gold.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Osah is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She was born in a small mountains village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and regain custody of her son

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 160 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp).

Description: He dresses well, wearing white shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He carries with him a set of shortbows on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. 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: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Gormogord 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Gormogord fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (9 gp). Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: This western man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has wavy copper crest. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Gifted from a young age, Dadalan studied abroad. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Takra never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Cloth of gold vestments (80 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. She has styled her golden hair well, parting it to the left. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a Shepherd first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She takes great joy in being the best Shepherd in town.

History: Gifted from a young age, Sybil studied abroad. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Thunderstones.