Description: This northern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is cut close to his head. His ears are large.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Iados embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. 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: Iados was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 250 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a blue costume with the symbols of death on his torso. His black hair is cut short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. The war was a terrible time for him, and Theren does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Born to a Courier, his father struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Gifted from a young age, Cockaby studied abroad. Ostracized due to the martial powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has moderate length chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the west. 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. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a green collared shirt and blue pants. He accessorizes with a brown scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His scarlet crest is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his red eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Kiirith grew up listening to his father's many stories. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Navigator

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

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: This woman wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a sai, but if one is not available she will default to her scimitar. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her left hand. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are blue.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Miller arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Guardian. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 80 gp. Tourmaline (110 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Bookbinder. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished kukri as well. His white hair is long and unkept. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He takes great joy in being the best Bookbinder in town.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Jabbie 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 tends to his Bookbinder job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to be a carter again

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears baggy blue pantaloons and a violet scarf. He is an epitome of beauty. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Koeth was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: She tends to wear a large pastel jacket, and carries halberds. Her red fur is smooth and relatively long. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Five grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Five. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 sp. Red spinel (120 gp).