Description: This slender woman stands about 4'1". She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the north to a Mercenary, Nurkara learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Mercenary for the past few years.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This northern man is abnormally tall. He wears a grey costume with the symbols of strength on his torso. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Ruler

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

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This western man likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is long and brown with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 70 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (600 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a pot bellied western woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She has styled her copper crest well, parting it to the left. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes orcs are coming to abduct people. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Harann hails from a village terrorized by orcs. In her 14th year, her parents were killed by a orcs raid, leaving Harann alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears long strands of ruby and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her silver hair is still thick. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Ermina liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 sp. Sard (50 gp).

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is white and very short. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: The child of a Body Guard, who enjoyed hunting, Amnon was taken on many hunting expeditions. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature, Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a yellow costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has silver hair. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 160 gp. Red garnet (40 gp).

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty yellow coat over it. She has slicked back auburn hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Enna 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 Enna. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her silver hair is singed and shortened. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is a Priest first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the east were limited. She tends to her Priest job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Job, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 300 gp. Aquamarine (300 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp).