Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her dancing with anyone who is interested.

History: Ea lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted divine powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and is pretty ugly. His black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. His parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when he was still a young child. The dire rats captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She hates orcs. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Cartwright but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She bought a sword and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Many orcs want her driven away.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Addict, PTSD. Bonds: Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 60 gp. 4 Holy water.

Description: A 2'11" western woman, she wears baggy red pantaloons and a white scarf. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She is baby faced.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Portia isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. 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: Born to a Bookbinder, her father struggled to pay the bills. She worked as a nervous Shoemaker and found it very stressful. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He dresses in tan turtlenecks beneath a green coat with blue slacks, marred by teas. He has a long golden beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

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. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Insane. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is wearing a tight tan one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, and sports empty pouches on his belt. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

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 tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He got into the Sculptor business at a young age. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Caeldrim has worked very hard to control his curse. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is content; and balancing his hectic life and new sculptor responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Opinionated, Optimist. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. Her long auburn hair reaches down to her waist. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered north to less war torn lands. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive, PTSD. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 5000 cp. A silver and pearl hairclip (80 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his mother. In his 10th year, his parents were killed by a goblins raid, leaving Tomi alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by goblins. Tomi was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the goblins.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and he wants revenge against goblins

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 100 gp. Jade (100 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tabaxi, and stands approximately 4'11". She wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants, and her gloved hand is found clutching a monstrous two handed axe. Her black fur is braided into rings. She has a dull look in her copper eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. 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: Quick was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She's also a talented Bookbinder, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Enemies. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Obsidian (6 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). Sardonyx (20 gp).