Description: This man prefers to wear flannel. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on his right hand. He has no hair. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He struck the Crown-heir job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 90 pp. Deep green spinel (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a fancy black suit. His hair is cut close to his head. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His martial abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this eastern woman wears just a pastel suit. She keeps her black fur in a pixie cut. Her yellow eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Trail hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

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 feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His chestnut hair is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Dabbledob was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered dancing. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: Her left side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. Her fur is short and orange. Her green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. The war was a terrible time for her, and Cloud does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She bought a dagger and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'8". He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze, and his gloved hand is found clutching a spear. His red hair is thinning but still full. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. Balam enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Balam grew up listening to his father's many stories. After coming to the age of reason, Balam took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 140 pp.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a hammer, but if one is not available he will default to his falchion. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Krimmon's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Disease. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her auburn hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her painting with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way south. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears just a brown suit, and she perpetually has her trident ready. Her fur is yellow and curly. Her eyes are amber.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. A true patriot, Emerald would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Emerald fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Fighting, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 160 gp.