Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull black iron scale mail. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He found a children's book about a Gnome 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. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp. Onyx (50 gp). Deep blue spinel (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a husky man, who is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His eyes are likewise red. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Ploughman arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Insomniac. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1000 sp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Musical instrument.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His hair is white and curly. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Goroth was born the youngest of three triplets. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Apothecary. He has never given up on his music dream.

Motivation: Revenge; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her red hair is cut short. Her eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. Vanchu enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: He wears white painted combat armor at almost all times. His hair is chestnut and very short. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Deep blue spinel (500 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a tan costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a ruined castle. She would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Arara took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sword and armor she uses now. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: Moonstone (40 gp). 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is dressed in earthy colors with a green and brown handkerchief worn on his right side. His bronze crest is still thick. His gold eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Herbalist. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her violet eyes peer out from beneath her broad black hat.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. 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 a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 300 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.