Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a black poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. She has moderate length chestnut hair. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Shautha alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. Her long blue hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are silver and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is envious of other's things. She hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that she so desires. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mastema grew up listening to her father's many stories. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she's looking for her big break

Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He wears tattered old clothes. He has a hunchback. His silver hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born in a small forest village. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He stands about 3'3" and wears dull red sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed kukri, just in case. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Dragonborn activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Dragonborn doctor. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied eastern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tattered pair of loose blue pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. His golden hair is heavily combed to the left. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of giants once and for all.

History: Born to a Painter, his father struggled to pay the bills. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and he desires to right it; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Slave. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 5'7". He is dressed in earthy colors with a white and brown handkerchief worn on his right side, and his gloved hand is found clutching a nunchaku. His hair is short and brown. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Mundane, Insane. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Sporting a auburn mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Layabout arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is greedy

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Rich. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 6000 cp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His golden hair is cut short. His blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is long and auburn with streaks of red, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is red, braided, and well cared for. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Dustin liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To clean up the streets.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Nature. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 130 gp.