Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her white hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. 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 filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born into a rich family. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Secretive, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'3" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears a worn and beaten armor. She has golden hair. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a red feather.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Oriel was born the youngest of three triplets. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Ugly. Bonds: Family, Guardian. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 80 gp. White pearl (110 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a white coat with blue slacks. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was born in the north. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she likes to wear tan tank tops with white skirt. She has no hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. In her 15th year, her parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Mara alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Mara was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Revenge; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His gold crest is thinning but still full. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 cp. Silver pearl (50 gp).

Description: He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a tan coat. He carries with him a set of scythes on his belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. His hair is blonde and very short. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Paggen fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is very fat, and prefers to wear flannel. He has shaved his head bald. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. While he appears to be a normal Half-Orc, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. After a long history of fighting, Amûg and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To protect his home.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease, Insane. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears baggy tan pantaloons and a black scarf. His white hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Map Maker profession.

History: Paggen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 200 sp.