Description: This man wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 7000 cp.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her golden hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. She has gray eyes.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: She was born at the edge of vast plains. 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 Spice Merchant. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Spice Merchant for hire.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'10". She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and her gloved hand is found clutching a morningstar. With bright chestnut hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes brigands are coming to abduct people. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 50 gp. Rock crystal (80 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is white, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. Being a Scribe kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 40 gp. Sardonyx (40 gp).

Description: She wears bulky black painted plate armor. Her purple hair, when down, is lengthy. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Sorath hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her dancing career. She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Sorath was born with her mother's beautiful face. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Some 3 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Sorath never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: Standing 3'2", this woman is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her golden hair is well kept. Her brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His auburn hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. On top of that he is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to his employer will always come first he doesn't like to hit women.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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 has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Adventurer, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 80 pp. Jasper (40 gp). Jade (90 gp). Rose (40 gp).

Description: She is a husky woman, who is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her auburn hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Through the years after Andraste was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Andraste's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this eastern woman is dressed in earthy colors with a green and white handkerchief worn on her right side. She has done her best to style her blue crest to look like a famous performer. Her red eyes peer out from beneath her broad green hat.

Personality: She loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Persistence. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 230 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).