Description: This younger middle-aged man is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather, and a wedding ring on his right hand. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are black and catlike.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Bathin lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: In love, Guardian, Religious, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 120 gp. Red spinel (130 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). With wild red hair. Her brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: The child of eastern immigrants she idolized her mother. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Ekk 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 Ekk. She has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 70 gp. Silver pearl (110 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She wears a colorful flower in her blonde hair. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Sage for hire.

Motivation: To be a Scribe again; and expand her business

Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a long brown beard with little hanging trinkets. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

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 does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love, Family, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, she is not a threatening figure. She has a very tight haircut. Her eyes are gray and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. 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: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. She moved out west to avoid the crime she committed. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light white in addition to tight pants. His hair is silver, silky, and of moderate length. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his feathered white hat.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Bounty Hunter. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and to be a bounty hunter again

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush, Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He is an epitome of beauty. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when orcs 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by orcs. Soveliss was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the orcs.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 280 gp. 1 Good lock.

Description: An older woman who wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a violet coat, she is not a threatening figure. She has done her best to style her golden hair to look like a famous performer. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. Like her father and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Layabout. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Layabout for hire.

Motivation: Many brigands want her driven away; and she feels threatened by others

Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is mildly Elf supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Doctor business.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Elven people; and elven compassion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 800 sp. Sardonyx (30 gp).