Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. She wears her auburn hair up. This blue eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: Born in the south to a Slave Trader, Menny learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Menny fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Pacifist, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft grey waves gently in the breeze. She has moderate length yellow fur. Her eyes are yellow and catlike.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Cloud was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She has worked as a Masseuse like her father before her.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Her purple hair is thinning but still full. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: Born to a Mason, her father struggled to pay the bills. 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 guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he wears long strands of jet and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. His white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Elven companion (his 'brother'). He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Mentor, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She carries with her a set of longbows on her belt, each one with a amber on the hilt. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 98. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Revenge; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A true patriot, Rathkran would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Military, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. He has styled his golden hair well, parting it to the left. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Painter. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. She carries with her a set of kukris, each one with a jet on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She wears her red hair down. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She uses divination through singing.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. A gifted student she started as a Assassin, but she got bored and became a Dyer. Recently the stress of being a Dyer has made it difficult for her to sleep.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 130 gp. Obsidian (11 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is renowned for his bright blue suits and hats. He has shaved his head bald. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 40 gp. Red-brown spinel (70 gp). 1 Banded mail.