Description: This light-skinned female is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has moderate length white hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Body Guard born in the past three hundred years. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Arara liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She struck the Body Guard job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 300 sp. White pearl (100 gp).

Description: 3'8" and muscular, this eastern man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He keeps his white hair in a pixie cut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Crown-heir for hire.

Motivation: To pay off his debts; and he made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Debt. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He wears red trousers with violet and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts, and carries lances. He wears a deerstalker hat to cover his moderate length black hair. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Thorpe is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a yellow coat. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her father. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Half-Elves in Vadania's homeland. Vadania decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: She is content; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: Chrysoprase (20 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears his blonde hair up in a very large beehive style do. His gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

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. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is typically in her Barber uniform, and she perpetually has her rapier ready. She wears her red hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: She got into the Barber business at a young age. Her druidic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Barber responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her fur, while still mostly cinnamon, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Art enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Art hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and obtaining odd cultural half-elven artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Opinionated, Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He has chestnut hair. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: Born in the west his family was never financially stable. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Poor. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this eastern man wears dull blue sweaters, loose grey pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed scythe, just in case. He has a long silver beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a Performer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. After coming to the age of reason, Hadarai took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He's also a talented Animal Trainer, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 140 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).