Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a grey costume with the symbols of death on her torso. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She's also a talented Fisher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and balancing her hectic life and new scribe responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Philantrophist. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He is well dressed, constantly wearing a blue suit, black shirt, and brown tie, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 3'7" when asserting himself. Sporting a golden mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 300 sp. Banded agate (6 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He keeps his long silver crest kept up in a rat tail. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 27. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barrister. He has achieved small success as a Barrister.

Motivation: To be a Healer again; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears pastel trousers with green and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His black fur is matted, messy, and big. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: Silent hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 50 gp. Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her blue hair is long and unkept. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 150 gp. Deep green spinel (90 gp).

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her hair is silver and very short. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Merla was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Merla's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. 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. Merla fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His amber eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker tan hat.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His tied-back hair is white. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: Quarion was born the youngest of three triplets. 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. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Painter and was forced into it by his family; and he feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright black and tan, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her silver eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Mastema hails from a village terrorized by drow. 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. 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: Athletic, Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Nature, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Malachite (7 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Peridot (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item.