Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brass crest is singed and shortened. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. Through the years after Greethen was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Greethen'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: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 70 gp. Peridot (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: 5'11" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are white and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep.

Flaws: Impulsive, Fearful, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing a tight violet one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His hair is silver and very short. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

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 is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He got into the Barrister business at a young age. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and balancing his hectic life and new barrister responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence. Flaws: Insomniac, Cynical. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 240 gp.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing a long, black cloak. His white crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has red eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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, Quarethon is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Quarethon was born the youngest of three triplets. As a very small child his family refused to pay dues to a local crime lord, who ordered them killed. His mother, a somewhat powerful mage sought to protect him and cast a teleportation spell that whisked him away. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy, Racist. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 700 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This northern woman wears a blue Stetson hat and blue clothes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Meena isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. Her childhood dream was to be a Healer, but she was a colossal failure. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 sp. Tiger eye turquoise (6 gp).

Description: 4'7" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep yellow leather and dull black iron scale mail. She has wavy white hair. 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 erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Hugolina was born with her mother's beautiful face. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 60 gp. Bloodstone (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His cinnamon fur has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce copper eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when goblins swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a red tunic with brown highlights, and long violet pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Butcher profession.

History: Born in the west to a Courier, Verna learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Courier for the past few years.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Superior lock.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman dresses like a well dressed Healer does, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Emen isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Half-Orc unity. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Emen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. She worked as a nervous Healer and found it very stressful. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and expand her business

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, In love, Attractive. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 120 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (100 gp).