Description: This dark-skinned female prefers to wear grey pants and tee shirts. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her hair is white and curly. She is baby faced.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She seeks to pay back kindness whenever she gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip she always seeks to do solids for her friends.

History: She got into the Detective business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Sculptor, but she got bored and became a Detective. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Detective for hire.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 150 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). Jet (70 gp).

Description: This slender woman stands about 3'3". She wears a tan vest and prefers red and brown shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her chestnut hair is wavy and long. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Veloptima isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. After a long history of fighting, Veloptima and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, In love. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has white hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane, Insane. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1900 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 6'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. He has a very tight haircut. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Anselm was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Humans in the west were limited. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Cynical, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Masseuse business.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 8000 sp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His red fur is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a Roofer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Cloak was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: To be a Roofer again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Job. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born in the south. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Flaws: Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 20 pp. Chalcedony (20 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'8". He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He is a Jackalwere in disguise. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his hand crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Weaver but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. A freak accident while working with his Carter father left him crippled. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Pacifist. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Antitoxin.