Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears professional attire. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has silver eyes.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.

Description: This southern woman is abnormally tall. She wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. She has styled her black hair well, parting it to the left. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She disdains her fellow southerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the south. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 700 sp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a robe, a symbol of the sun god around her neck, and a axe on her belt. Her moppish blonde hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Nissa lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has dedicated herself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears well tailored gowns and hats with beautiful decoration. She is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. She carries a battered club and tarnished sai as well. She has a very tight haircut. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 310 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He wears a violet costume with the symbols of magic on his torso. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He has a very tight haircut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is mildly Half-Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was born in the north. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He's also a talented Map Maker, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Human compassion; and to be a map maker again

Flaws: Racist, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a tan vest with golden trim over her white shirt. Her green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and her tan boots flare out at the collars. Her hair is red and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

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 plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born in the east. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is content

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 600 sp. Jade (160 gp).

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. Her ears are large.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. 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 is greedy; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a axe on his belt. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the east. In his 16th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Naeris alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Naeris fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His dark red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. He has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: Cressel lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Ploughman and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Family, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 200 sp. Pink pearl (160 gp).