Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His chestnut hair is braided into rings. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with writing. He constantly tries to fill his life with writing. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. After a long history of fighting, Anverth and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 1900 sp. 2 Antitoxin.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Bharash was born the youngest of three triplets. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Bharash has worked very hard to control his curse. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Orc people; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Depressed, Addict, Disease, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. Her black hair is lengthy. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Logical. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her ears are large.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-sister.

History: Trained by her mother for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Jezebeth was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Military, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a black costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. She is physically well-built. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and doesn't want to be a sage and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she sports white clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this northern gal figured out how to best use her charms to convince people to do what she wants. The war was a terrible time for her, and Pennie does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Halflings in Pennie's homeland. Pennie decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Pennie fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His black hair is cut short. His skin is flawless and his gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Varis's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Varis is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Varis abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 120 gp. Lapis lazuli (11 gp).

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'7" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her hair is white and curly. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She hates drow. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Neega hails from a village terrorized by drow. The family's rival house kidnapped her sister with the intent that her sister marry their son to gain control of contested properties. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to drow.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is chestnut and curly. She has a dull look in her amber eyes.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Susannah fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Impeccable, Fighting. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 300 sp.