Description: He is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He has a hunchback. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born in a small island village. Oskar 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'1". She dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with grey slacks. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Merla's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She wears skinny pants and wears a yellow and violet robe with the hood down. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Herbalist. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered dancing. She became a Herbalist soon after.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep red leather and dull violet iron scale mail. Her red hair is knotted and matted. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered west to less war torn lands. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, PTSD. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 80 gp. A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his halberd with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly halberds and axes. His tied-back hair is red. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 4000 cp. Golden yellow topaz (200 gp).

Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and blue handkerchief worn on her left side. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has dyed her greying brown hair a little too much giving a sharp brown color. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 gp. Eye agate (16 gp).

Description: This man is dressed in earthy colors with a green and black handkerchief worn on his right side. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his right hand. His white hair is matted, messy, and big. His fierce silver eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Impulsive, Secretive. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: He tends to wear a violet poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He keeps his long white hair kept up in a rat tail. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Barrister business.

History: Born in the east to a Barrister, Kyle learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated, Persistence. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 3000 cp. White pearl (70 gp).