Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His long green crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has green eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 40 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (70 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and brown pants. His scarlet crest is knotted and matted. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 6000 cp. A small bag of saffron. (90 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a black vest and prefers green and tan shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. She keeps her white crest in a pixie cut. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nuthra studied abroad. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady amber eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Alberich was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Dwarves became a terror of the countryside. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears an entirely black suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her crest is white and very short. Her fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture.

Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer, Criminal record, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An older woman who wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her longbow with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt, she is not a threatening figure. Her hair is white and curly. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Seraphina was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (120 gp).

Description: She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with top hat. She carries with her a set of axes on her belt, each one with a jet on the hilt. She has shaved her head bald. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: Born in the south to a Body Guard, Meriele learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a black cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. She keeps her brass crest in a pixie cut. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 40 gp. Iolite (30 gp).