Description: He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his red eyes.

Personality: He is a Hunter first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 160 gp. Malachite (15 gp).

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished kukri as well. His fur is black, silky, and of moderate length. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: He is a Slaad in disguise. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Bloodstone (20 gp).

Description: She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She carries with her a set of shortbows on her belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her gold eyes peer out from beneath her deerstalker black hat.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. She is obsessed with her god.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Ploughman they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Slave Trader, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 20 gp. Moonstone (30 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Her blue hair is still thick. Her red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Locksmith. She's also a talented Spy, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to be a spy again

Ideals: Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has done his best to style his auburn hair to look like a famous performer. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his top blue hat.

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 has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears skinny pants and wears a green and tan robe with the hood down. His hair is short and dark red. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Balam is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. She wears her golden hair down. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She has all her life been fascinated with music.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the west were limited. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She made a deal with a demon which lead to her current lot in life, and she's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off her debts

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Logical. Bonds: Immigrant, Debt. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 10 pp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He has red hair. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. As he has aged he has sought to do reparations for his actions as a youth. He is also making sure that his compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: Born to a Barber, his father struggled to pay the bills. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Being a Roofer 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 has decided he is irredeemable; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: Standing 2'8", this woman is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Adventurer. Her silver hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She has a dull look in her violet eyes.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Adventurer. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again.

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 350 gp. Obsidian (13 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp).