Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he typically wears brown cloth garments or leather armor. His gray fur is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise hazel.

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. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his singing with anyone who is interested.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Ideals: Persistence, Artistic. Bonds: Family, Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. His crest is red and very short. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He hates orcs. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants. Her cinnamon fur is unkempt and raggedy. Her copper eyes peer out from beneath her Stetson pastel hat.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 220 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. She has gold crest. Her eyes are red and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Chassath was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Disease, Forgetful. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Has a crush. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with yellow colored cloaks and clothing. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He is very pretty but has cold, dead 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 fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Brewer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Butcher, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Butcher and was forced into it by his family; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is a great chef.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants her found; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a very tight haircut. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Through the years after Sheggen was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Sheggen's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She is a pot bellied northern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. She wears a feathered hat to hide her balding. She has gleaming, smiling hazel eyes.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. After a long history of fighting, Huru and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He has styled his black crest well, parting it to the right. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Armorer for the past few years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 sp.