Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She has styled her silver hair well, parting it to the left. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

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. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born into a rich family. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Mardred alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and sabotage a competitor

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Citrine (40 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a black coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a top hat upon his head. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This western man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest man in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Barber born in the past three hundred years. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the east. 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 Barber. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by a spirit.

Motivation: Expand his business; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is golden, silky, and of moderate length. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (90 gp).

Description: 2'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull black iron scale mail. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Eida isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. She is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 north. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He wears a black Stetson hat and black clothes. He carries a battered scythe and tarnished kukri as well. His hair is blue and curly. His gold eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Ahrim was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He found a children's book about a Tiefling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 160 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. He has auburn hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 500 sp.