Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. He is an epitome of beauty. His hair is short and chestnut. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. 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: Richard was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears tattered old clothes. He keeps his black fur in a flapper bob. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Shy, Mundane, PTSD. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. She wears her red hair up. Her fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Merla grew up listening to her father's many stories. Merla was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Merla decided she wanted neither the life of her father nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 320 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Deep blue spinel (600 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a blue collared shirt and red skirt. She accessorizes with a pastel scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across her shirt. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: This woman loves dancing and to teach people dancing more than just about anything. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Waywocket was born the youngest of three triplets. Waywocket abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her bastard sword, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. Her black hair is wavy and long. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. 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, Ellyjoybell is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. A serious injury left her mother unemployed and in need of constant care. Her family became saddled with debt trying to care for her infirm mother. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ellyjoybell fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Debt. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his dark red hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are likewise silver. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Marbas will drive conversation. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He is a Succubi in disguise. 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 has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature longsword.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new mayor responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Slave, Military. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. This gold eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears blue leather gloves, a blue jacket, and tight pants. He has chestnut hair. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. Rimple liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. 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: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 50 gp.