Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with wide-brimmed hat. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. He has blue eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

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 loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Norûk and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 70 pp.

Description: She is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and yellow handkerchief worn on her right side. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She is bald on top and has large blonde tufts of hair around her ears. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. She helped her father out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and balancing her hectic life and new guard responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a grey vest and prefers brown and grey shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes illithids are coming to abduct people. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He got into the Bricklayer business at a young age. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Bricklayer responsibilities is difficult; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a brown coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a broad hat upon his head. He keeps his long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way east. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 5000 cp. A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (50 gp).

Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He is portly but not overly obese. His gold crest is long and unkept. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. The war was a terrible time for him, and Sethrekar does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. After a long history of fighting, Sethrekar and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Depressed. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Backpack.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His crest, while still mostly scarlet, has prominent grey streaks. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned woman, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She has shaved her head bald. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is ready at a moment's notice to give into her darker urges. She is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. She often ends up burning people alive in the fires she starts.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: This late middle aged woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured and is in decent physical shape. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her copper eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Art lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. After coming to the age of reason, Art took it upon herself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 90 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp).

Description: An older man who is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down, he is not a threatening figure. His blonde hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are hazel and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Krimmon never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and he is content

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.