Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Pushkrimp was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and very much looks the part of a Scribe. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her brown eyes peer out from beneath her top grey hat.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Balifra has worked very hard to control her curse. She has worked as a Scribe like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: With green face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears grey leather gloves, a grey jacket, and tight pants. Her brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Slave, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He wears long strands of jet and short black dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. His blonde hair is braided into rings. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has all his life been fascinated with music.

History: Latbag hails from a village terrorized by illithids. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Many illithids want him driven away; and money/treasure

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears suspenders and green workpants. Her shirt is red, and she wears a heavy green leather apron most of the time. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She has a cruel streak; something she gained from her previous mentor. She harbors resentment against her former mentor.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 400 sp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: He wears a worn and beaten armor. He is portly but not overly obese. He wears his red hair down. He has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. A true patriot, Vassago would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is his passion.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 60 gp. Rock crystal (40 gp). Azurite (13 gp). 2 Holy water.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'9". She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. She has no hair. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Tagga studied abroad. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her red hair is lengthy. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Callybon is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Navigator arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. 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 feels kind of lost in life; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Amethyst (100 gp).

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a tight fitting tan shirt and pants. Her tied-back hair is blonde. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was born in the north. Anastrianna was born on a far northern desert where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Stableman. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Golden pearl (150 gp). 1 Banded mail.