Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a robe, a symbol of death around her neck, and a pickaxe on her belt. She sports a flattop crest cut. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Born to a Tanner, her mother struggled to pay the bills. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He found a children's book about a Halfling 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. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Cynical, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Architect

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and is pretty ugly. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She dropped out of school before completing her studies. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the north were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Opinionated. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 sp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is typically in her Painter uniform. Her white crest, when down, is lengthy. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Painter. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born to a Sailor, her mother struggled to pay the bills. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Painter. She has achieved small success as a Painter.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This woman wears a grey coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a small hat upon her head. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on her right hand. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are violet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and grey, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his green eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Priest. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Priest.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Slave. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This woman wears suspenders and blue workpants. Her shirt is tan, and she wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. She has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized emerald on her left hand. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the west were limited. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: Standing 5'10", this man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his ceremonial dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His black hair is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born in the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the north were limited. After a long history of fighting, Traki and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 cp.