Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His green crest has been sun bleached extensively. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Adrex was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Like his mother and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Spice Merchant. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Slave, Rich, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. Her black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Manea isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Tiefling unity. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is typically in her Tailor uniform. Her black hair is still thick. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. 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 has taken up work as a Tailor and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her black hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She was born at the edge of vast desert. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. She carries with her a set of flails, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her scarlet crest down. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to clean up the streets

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. Her tied-back hair is white. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born in a small plains village. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Recently the stress of being a Knight has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and many dire rats want her driven away

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a sickle, but if one is not available he will default to his bastard sword. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length red hair. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Nicholas 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. Nicholas decided he wanted neither the life of his mother 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 remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: An older woman who is well dressed, constantly wearing a tan suit, yellow shirt, and green tie, she is not a threatening figure. She has styled her brown hair well, parting it to the right. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Breena was born with her father's beautiful face. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Cynical, Insane, Lazy. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears baggy red pantaloons and a grey scarf. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a flattop hair cut. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Miner work with an outfit from a few towns over. Miner work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Joker, Professionalism, Impeccable. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.