Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft yellow waves gently in the breeze. His fur is black, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. After coming to the age of reason, Five took it upon himself to study the druidic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by unlife.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Server

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She wears white leather gloves, a white jacket, and tight pants. She has no hair. Her gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Layabout they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Seamstress, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and doesn't want to be a seamstress and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 80 gp. Malachite (4 gp).

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length blonde hair. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. 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 wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: This woman stands a little under 4'9" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She wears just a yellow suit. Her hair is black and curly. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Antinua was born the youngest of three triplets. She was taken from her home at a very young age. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family, Slave. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and green, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly flails and longswords. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is a great chef.

History: Her psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20 pp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His yellow leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. He carries a battered greatsword and tarnished dagger as well. His bronze crest is heavily combed to the right. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Pandjed enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Pandjed lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He dropped out of school to support his sick father, and resented it. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears long strands of aquamarine and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her hair is brown and curly. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Weaver arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. She was granted psionic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly kukris and crossbows. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. Nora is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Nora studied abroad. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her beige fur up. Her eyes are green and beady.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her job bores her to no end. She has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Dynamic abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.