Description: This exceptionally lanky man is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Carpenter. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She tends to wear a grey poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her hair is black and very short. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker grey hat.

Personality: She is a very philanthropic person; she spends her free time working at various soup kitchens. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Emmeline hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. As a young child she wandered into the woods despite her mother's warnings against it. Afterwards she claimed she had encountered gnolls who tried to eat her hand. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against gnolls; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Halfling, and stands approximately 2'11". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and his gloved hand is found clutching a shortspear. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He uses divination through singing.

History: Born in the south to a Merchant, Oblar learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. 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: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and balancing his hectic life and new merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His brown hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Mormo's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tieflings in the west were limited. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Guardian. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is cut close to his head. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Lazy, Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a hunchback. His head has been shaved. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: Nuraval is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has achieved small success as a Layabout.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and expand his business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Depressed. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 1100 sp. Iolite (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). Red garnet (100 gp).

Description: This man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is golden and curly. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Ûshgol was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Detective. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Ûshgol never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Logical, Persistence. Bonds: Job, In love, Religious. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: This late middle aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His hair is brown and curly. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is a great chef.

History: Travok was born the youngest of three triplets. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to be a dilettante again

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 700 sp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (80 gp).