Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a simple yellow robe with white stripes complete with hood. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 100 sp. Solid gold idol (300 gp).

Description: This woman wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a sword on her belt, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is blue and curly. Her gold eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Hecat hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her writing career. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears baggy red pantaloons and a brown scarf. Her hair is brown and very short. She has gray eyes and a red hat with a brown feather.

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. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 320 gp.

Description: He wears violet robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available he will default to his hand crossbow, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'1" when asserting himself. His white hair is long and unkept. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 120 gp. Hematite (8 gp).

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and is pretty ugly. Her Stetson hat is riddled with cuts and holes. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. His silver eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson green hat.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Oriax was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Oriax fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: 5'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a grey scarf. Her hair is brown and curly. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 south. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found.

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep tan leather and dull brown iron scale mail. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Fabien grew up listening to his father's many stories. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Religious, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 4000 cp. Rock crystal (50 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She keeps her chestnut hair in a pixie cut. Her brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Birel is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 poetry dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Justice, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.