Description: He is in excellent shape and wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: A powerful brothel owner made him what he is. When Beiro reached his early adolescence his Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and white handkerchief worn on her left side. She wears a top hat to hide her balding. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her black eyes.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Ronobe grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature mace.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Halfling artifacts is her passion; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Has a crush, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She typically wears white cloth garments or leather armor. Her hair is silver and very short. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Carter who has hired her part-time. Engong enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and wants her loneliness to end

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: She stands about 3'2" and wears skinny pants and wears a red and violet robe with the hood down. Her left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. She has shaved her head bald. She is baby faced.

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. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nikki grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Nikki. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Slave. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Golden pearl (110 gp).

Description: He has a missing left arm. He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: Alberich was born with his mother's beautiful face. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 2000 cp. Bloodstone (30 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his violet eyes.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His first spouse was a Fortune-teller, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 2800 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear white clothing when she does not wear armor. Her brown hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes goblins are coming to abduct people. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Bree was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. 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. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Jade (120 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 3'7" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears blue trousers with tan and black striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. Sporting a white mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Farmer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 11 years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His long black hair reaches down to his waist. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 130 gp.