Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She wears baggy white pantaloons and a green scarf. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her eyes are violet and catlike.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving She will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. She cares deeply for her spouse and does her best to make sure her guests look presentable.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Joker, Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1000 cp. Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery, and carries pickaxes. His black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

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 has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He struck the Slave Trader job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and expand his business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. His top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Golden yellow topaz (500 gp).

Description: She stands about 5'4" and wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time. Her right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. With bright silver hair. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. Hatae enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in the west to a Brewer, Hatae learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Hatae was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has achieved small success as a Brewer.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Ahlyssa was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ahlyssa fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a grey wide-brimmed hat and grey clothes. His red hair is smooth and relatively long. His ears are large.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Painter. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: Born in the north to a Painter, Erias learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Being a Painter kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Nature, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp).

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a worn and beaten armor. His hair is short and chestnut. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Bookbinder but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a daughter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Mentor, In love. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This northern woman wears suspenders and yellow workpants. Her shirt is blue, and she wears a heavy yellow leather apron most of the time. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her white hair is still thick. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her feathered yellow hat.

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. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean green cloak covering his clean studded leather. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by dire rats. Kairon was horrified and prayed that his father was alright. However, he heard that his father had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.