Description: He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with brown colored cloaks and clothing. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Vondal is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the west to a Guard, Vondal learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He found a children's book about a Dwarf 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 then took over the family business and is one of the better Guard for hire.

Motivation: He's in love; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Extrovert, Joker. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a green coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His silver crest is heavily combed to the right. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Butcher profession.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Heskan was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Glassblower work with an outfit from a few towns over. Glassblower work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave, Job, Mentor. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she is typically in her Cook uniform. Her hair is blue and curly. Her black eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Nemeia was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. Being a Cook kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and 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

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: PTSD, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: A 5'11" northern man, he tends to wear a yellow poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His white hair is unkempt and raggedy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Mindartis lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and regain custody of his daughter

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, In love, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants, and carries quarterstaffs. He has styled his white hair well, parting it to the left. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. 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-sister.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Family, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

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

Possessions: 30 pp. Black pearl (300 gp).

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. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Dwarves in the north were limited. 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. Marastyr fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and doesn't want to be a interpreter and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: He likes to wear green tank tops with grey pants. He is portly but not overly obese. He keeps his blue hair in a flapper bob. His eyes are a pleasant black.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. After a long history of fighting, Thamuz and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her crest is red and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. 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: She was born in a small mountains village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Server

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. Her white hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a rose scrunchie. Her eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Eleanor never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, In love. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Just what you see.