Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His blonde hair is long and unkept. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears a white tunic with black highlights, and long brown pants that bunch up around her shoes. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. A freak accident while working with her Scribe mother left her crippled. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 130 gp. Smoky quartz (50 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat, and a wedding ring on her left hand. She wears a colorful flower in her golden hair. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She refers to her adoptive father for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Nagrette lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Ostracized due to the divine powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Nagrette never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: In love, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 150 gp. Red garnet (130 gp).

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light green in addition to tight pants. His copper crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. His eyes are red and beady.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 3000 cp. Freshwater pearl (15 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, black cloak. He has brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born in the east to a Layabout, Akoth learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Layabout hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Layabout for the past few years.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker, Logical. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Poor. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 360 gp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Jasper (20 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heward 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 Heward. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Family. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a worn and beaten armor. Sporting a blonde mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Detective arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His silver hair is heavily combed to the left. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Akoth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: To be a Banker again.

Ideals: Impeccable, Joker. Bonds: Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears dark leathers with embroidery. His brown hair is singed and shortened. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Through the years after Zunn was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Zunn 's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 130 gp. 1 Climber’s kit.