Description: This man wears a blue tunic with brown highlights, and long red pants that bunch up around his shoes. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His golden hair is greasy and uncared for. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears green leather gloves, a green jacket, and tight pants, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She has done her best to style her copper crest to look like a famous performer. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a tan feather.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Kava was born in the east. At a young age she loved to build and create. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Brewer

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

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

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. She has a long golden ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has a dull look in her blue eyes.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her mother took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears dull brown sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed club, just in case. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Miller. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born in the north. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Miller for the past few years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Red spinel (140 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This slender woman stands about 6'2". She wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is cut close to her head. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She is a thrill seeker, she laughs at people and throws down challenges. She is highly competitive and combative.

History: Creega was born the youngest of three triplets. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son.

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue sapphire (900 gp). Red-brown spinel (130 gp).

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Layabout. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His black eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Paymon was born with his father's beautiful face. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Layabout. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 220 gp. Malachite (5 gp). Eye agate (5 gp).

Description: This woman wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her scythe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on her right hand. Her red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She comes from a rich eastern family. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears dull black sweaters, loose tan pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath her sweater she keeps a concealed shield, just in case, and is pretty ugly. She has styled her brass crest well, parting it to the right. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. 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: A child with a great deal of writing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Surina 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 Surina. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears silk and lounges about seductively. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. A friendly and beautiful Half-Elf, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Born in the north his family was never financially stable. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 60 gp. Coral (160 gp).