Description: Standing 5'1", this woman is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. Her blonde hair is long and unkept. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Xanaphia enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She comes from a rich western family. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature lance.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: Standing 6'1", this man wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. His hair is short and chestnut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 gp. Chalcedony (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a simple white robe with black stripes complete with hood. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His amber eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Corkitron was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 2600 sp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a black tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around his shoes. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He takes great joy in being the best Architect in town.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by drow, and he desires to right it; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 3'2". He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and his gloved hand is found clutching a axe. His hair is long and golden with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day he will do what he thinks is right.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He was granted divine powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of illithids

Ideals: Joker, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: Standing 5'0", this man wears tattered old clothes. His chestnut hair is thinning but still full. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep white.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Tieflings.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Tiefling conditions. 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 desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Racist. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Her first spouse was a Cartwright, they had one son, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and doesn't want to be a stylist and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Slave, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This malnourished man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hugh studied abroad. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'1". He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has dyed his greying cinnamon fur a little too much giving a sharp cinnamon color. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Bowyer business.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bowyer. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Job, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Just what you see.