Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length red fur. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Emerald was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Knight work with an outfit from a few towns over. Knight work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has chestnut hair. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He got into the Mason business at a young age. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and balancing his hectic life and new mason responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a tight fitting red shirt and pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His tied-back hair is white. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his wide-brimmed red hat.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Gildmak is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Born in the east to a Priest, Gildmak learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Skak embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born into a rich family. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy; and dragonborn compassion

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears his auburn hair up. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her blue hair is matted, messy, and big. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Locksmith. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 4'11" and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has wavy black hair. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker, Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: She wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available she will default to her shortspear. Her red hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. To her fellows she 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: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Shaena was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His red crest is thinning but still full. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 50 gp.