Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortspear with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His rusty crest has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is not truly malevolent, but he is obsessed with dancing. He constantly tries to fill his life with dancing. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears a simple blue robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. She has wavy black hair. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1700 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He is well dressed, constantly wearing a violet suit, brown shirt, and white tie. His silver hair is long and unkept. He has gleaming, smiling violet eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Ruler business.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with his Locksmith mother left him crippled. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Locksmith. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears green trousers with grey and tan striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is portly but not overly obese. She has no hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Mercenary who has hired her part-time. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Her parents were killed by gnolls in a raid when she was still a young child. The gnolls captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she is greedy

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a grey shirt with thin blue vertical stripes and brown pants. He wears his black hair up. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Job, Nature, Family. Occupation: Mortician

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

Possessions: 100 gp. A small bag of saffron. (30 gp).

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of morningstars on his belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has gleaming, smiling white eyes.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Nicor lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the south for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 6'4" and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. She wears a colorful flower in her black fur. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 south. By chance she met her brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Slave. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He has no hair. He has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (50 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.