Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty green coat over it. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. His eyes are likewise white.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. 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-brother.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Body Guard arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society. His cinnamon fur is braided into rings. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Art speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Tabaxis in the west were limited. 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: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and money/treasure

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a tan tunic with blue highlights, and long black pants that bunch up around his shoes. He is an epitome of beauty. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Optimist, Artistic. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 5'3" and is typically in her Herbalist uniform. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Oriel 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 Oriel. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 180 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. With bright silver hair. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help her friends. She considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Halflings. Her skin is light but she possesses many green ritualistic tattoos. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. A true patriot, Jasmine would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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. She has taken up work as a Farmer and fed both sides of the war false information with the goal of increasing casualties.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her hair is red and very short. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. She worked as a nervous Dilettante and found it very stressful. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Malachite (11 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a grey coat over a black low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon his head. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He works hard and plays hard.

History: Alberich was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He tends to his Knight job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1500 sp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a black armored body suit, with a simple blue line shooting up and back down. She wears her silver crest up. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are red.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 40 pp.