Description: This man is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His ears are large.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: Dimble was born the youngest of three triplets. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Merchant. He tends to his Merchant job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Family, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: A 5'11" southern man, he is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. His red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are violet and beady.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Shepherd hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her hair is golden and curly. She has hazel eyes and a brown hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother 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 spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 110 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her silver hair is heavily combed to the right. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Marastyr alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by dire rats. Marastyr was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the dire rats.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 290 gp. Blue quartz (8 gp). Rose (40 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and grey handkerchief worn on his right side. His moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes are amber.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. A freak accident while working with his Locksmith mother left him crippled. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: He stands about 5'8" and likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Laucian was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. 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. Laucian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look. She has styled her rusty crest well, parting it to the right. Her fierce gold eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Hedonist, Mundane, Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, she wears a green top hat and green clothes. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She likes to make people angry or surprised. She takes great joy in being the best Shepherd in town.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Shepherd hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To be a Spice Merchant again; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Job, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is short and dark red. His white eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Akmen is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Akmen was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Map Maker and found it very stressful. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Addict, Depressed, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Job. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Climber’s kit. 1 Masterwork manacles.