Description: 3'9" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears baggy brown pantaloons and a green scarf. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her blue eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Helgret embodies much of what other species detest in the Dwarves. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. She has a very tight haircut. Her green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Animal Trainer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a son. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Sarai never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 50 gp. Red-brown spinel (110 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His head has been shaved. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He wears his chestnut hair down. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Elves became a terror of the countryside. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is a Soapmaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Barkeep profession.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Veloptima grew up listening to her father's many stories. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Bonds: Poor, Job, Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Valida was born to in a poor docking district. She spent her early days working in the same smith shop her father was employed at, doing general labor. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, 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 used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Joker, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Red-brown spinel (130 gp). 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Halflings. His skin is light but he possesses many tan ritualistic tattoos. He wears a red tunic with tan highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around his shoes. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. 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 inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Nature, Job, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 70 gp. Red spinel (140 gp). Silver pearl (140 gp). Golden pearl (140 gp). 4 Smokesticks.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'4" and has the majority of his body covered in plate. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Thoradin was born with his mother's beautiful face. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Scribe. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is dressed in earthy colors with a white and violet handkerchief worn on his left side. His silver hair is thinning but still full. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a Fisher, his father struggled to pay the bills. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has achieved small success as a Shipwright.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and many goblins want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.