Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His blue crest is thinning but still full. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Layabout. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Nykkan enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He got into the Layabout business at a young age. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Flaws: Hedonist, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 3000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (90 gp).

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he sports violet clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His brown hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Adran grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She prefers to wear brown clothing when she does not wear armor. She has a long auburn ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Audhild is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a bow, but if one is not available he will default to his morningstar. He carries a battered bow and tarnished morningstar as well. His long white hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Raymond was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He tends to his Beggar job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. He has done his best to style his blonde hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are gray and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. 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 is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 cp. Sardonyx (70 gp).

Description: She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light grey in addition to tight pants. She carries with her a set of kukris, each one with a opal on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her hair is long and white with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small grey clips. She has hazel eyes.

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 disdains her fellow northerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are black.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 80 pp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His golden hair is still thick. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Faran hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his divine talents. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly lances and swords. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Murook has worked very hard to control her curse. Being a Bowyer 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 has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 20 gp.