Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered yellow stockings. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Anastrianna lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 became a Banker soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Antitoxin.

Description: He tends to wear a large brown jacket. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his quarterstaff, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. His brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. The war was a terrible time for him, and Gimurt does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: Gimurt was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bricklayer. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Cartwright. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Has a crush, In love. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 2000 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (130 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He wears his white hair down. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 40. 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. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This late middle aged woman likes to wear ponchos typically of a light pastel in addition to tight pants and is in decent physical shape. She wears her white fur up. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Beast lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A freak accident while working with her Tailor father left her crippled. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Ploughman responsibilities is difficult; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Joker, Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. He has silver hair. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Mantus hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Extrovert. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her hair is short and black. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. After a long history of fighting, Tomph and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She hates goblins. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She uses divination through singing.

History: Kilia was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a fancy black dress. Her hair is black and curly. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Gaaki isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Gaaki is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 4'9". She wears a tattered pair of loose brown pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs, and her gloved hand is found clutching a halberd. She has shaved her head bald. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady amber eyes.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Williamina was born in the south. At a young age she loved to build and create. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 10 pp.