Description: He wears blue robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a ceremonial dagger, but if one is not available he will default to his sword. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 40 pp. 3 Antitoxin.

Description: This fat western woman has a bulbous nose and prefers to wear flannel. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her red hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Rosalind hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Ostracized due to the druidic powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Revenge; and someone believes her a fraud

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoberyl (50 gp). Jasper (50 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately 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 keeps his long gray fur kept up in a rat tail. His half smiles and copper eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He got into the Mortician business at a young age. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Mortician work with an outfit from a few towns over. Mortician work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new mortician responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She stands about 2'8" and wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has several tiny amber earrings on each ear.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. When Marigold reached her early adolescence her Halfling mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1600 sp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: He is a husky man, who is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. He has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Aust embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Aust grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Cook for the past few years.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 3100 sp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a red coat over a violet low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. With bright auburn hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She runs her personal life as if detached from it. She organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits she will get from it. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Seraphina lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the east for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by brigands. Seraphina was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the brigands.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 70 gp. Obsidian (15 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. His red hair is long and unkept. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Ruler and found it very stressful. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He is typically in his Stableman uniform. He has a hunchback. His silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He worked as a nervous Stableman and found it very stressful. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 60 pp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he is typically in his Laborer uniform. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His white eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He tends to his Laborer job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 80 pp.