Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Through the years after John was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. John's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Selfish, Disease. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 700 sp. Deep green spinel (60 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: He has a missing right arm. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Vanuath is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Vanuath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has achieved small success as a Architect.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker, Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 2500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The light-skinned woman stands 4'0" and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her white hair is greasy and uncared for. Her eyes are a pleasant brown.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature monstrous two handed axe.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and to reunite with her old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born in a small plains village. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: She very much looks the part of a Knight. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Knight. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 150 pp. Amber (160 gp). Carnelian (60 gp).

Description: He has a large green mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his blue robe. He wears his blue hair up. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: Golden pearl (130 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Human, and stands approximately 4'10". She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat, and her gloved hand is found clutching a hammer. Her golden hair is greasy and uncared for. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Herleva liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 20 pp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'6". She dresses like a well dressed Bowyer does. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A friendly and beautiful Human, she is rarely seen without a few beauties around her arms. Though a playboy in all rights, she is no lame duck.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. She's also a talented Butcher, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. His hair is silver and very short. His half smiles and gray eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Himo grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Himo. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Guardian, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 40 pp.