Description: He wears bulky black painted plate armor. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He sports a flattop crest cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor, Guardian. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear grey clothing when she does not wear armor. She has a very tight haircut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. 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: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Yurgunn 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 Yurgunn. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 1 Holy water.

Description: This dark-skinned female likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She struck the Shepherd job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Extrovert, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has wavy brown hair. This hazel eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Military, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 120 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished trident as well. Her fur is cut close to her head. Her eyes are a pleasant yellow.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. 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. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shadow fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Military. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 120 pp.

Description: She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. Her auburn hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She can't help but pocket interesting objects she comes across

History: She was born in the north, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Immigrant, Family, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has styled his brown fur well, parting it to the left. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the north. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Cynical. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'2" when asserting himself. His black hair is matted, messy, and big. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears tattered old clothes. He keeps his long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. After coming to the age of reason, Naal took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.