Description: A plain young-adult woman, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: This woman loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Ridaro was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like her mother and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Layabout. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Layabout for hire.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. 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. His violet eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Mindartis embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mindartis grew up listening to his father's many stories. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears a grey top hat and grey clothes, marred by chocolates. He sports a long brown beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Trym was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He wants to get laid; and he has a crush on the local spice merchant

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record, Mentor, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a brown tunic with tan highlights, and long green pants that bunch up around his shoes. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He uses divination through singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Kildrak studied abroad. Kildrak was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Kildrak decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a brown costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His golden hair is singed and shortened. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Actor father left him crippled. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Chrysoprase (50 gp). 5 Acid flasks.

Description: This woman is very fat, and dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her crest is blue and very short. Her red eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Surina hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She carries with her a set of greatswords, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Dell embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Merchant but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. After a long history of fighting, Dell and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 220 gp.

Description: He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his whip, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a clover on it. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has green eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Traki isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Elven unity. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Traki grew up listening to his father's many stories. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are likewise amber. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 gp.