Description: This northern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a green coat with pastel slacks. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Shax has worked very hard to control her curse. Being a Apothecary kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a tight fitting white shirt and pants. His auburn hair is cut short. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. Bucklal enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Bucklal alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He bought a quarterstaff and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he wants to get laid

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has red fur. He has a dull look in his amber eyes.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: Left-Handed hails from a village terrorized by goblins. Left-Handed was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Weaver. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Many goblins want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He comes from a rich northern family. Through the years after Efferil was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Efferil's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature monstrous two handed axe.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural tiefling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'2" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears professional attire. He keeps his white fur in a flapper bob. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. Elegant enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Butcher arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 200 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp).

Description: This man wears grey painted combat armor at almost all times. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His long chestnut hair reaches down to his waist. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears a yellow coat over a blue low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. After a long history of fighting, Mara and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 6'8" and muscular, this southern man wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He keeps his long red hair kept up in a rat tail. His white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Slave. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears a violet vest and prefers tan and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His head has been shaved. His brown eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: This man loves poetry and to teach people poetry more than just about anything. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Artistic, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 400 sp.