Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He wears a colorful flower in his bronze crest. His red eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. 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, Heskan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Heskan hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs.

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a tan shirt with thin black vertical stripes and red pants. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the north were limited. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to be a scribe again

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Jasper (60 gp).

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She wears a tan shirt with thin green vertical stripes and grey pants. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her eyes are likewise violet. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 2400 sp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Lapis lazuli (11 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a pastel cloak and cross-gartered grey stockings. He wears his white fur down. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Shadow hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his poetry career. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born in a small forest village. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. His hair is long and red with streaks of brown, and is pulled back with small grey clips. His beard is brown, braided, and well cared for. He has blue eyes and a grey hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to protect his home

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist, Greedy. Bonds: Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are gray.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: Born in the south to a Barkeep, Sumnes learned a great deal about her mother's area of expertise. Her childhood dream was to be a Adventurer, but she was a colossal failure. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Barkeep.

Motivation: To be a Adventurer again.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 130 gp. Banded agate (12 gp).

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a robe, a symbol of her god around her neck, and a quarterstaff on her belt. Her auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Mortician arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Jelenneth fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He has a tattooed face.

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: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. Through the years after Paggen was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Paggen's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. 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: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears a Stetson hat to hide his balding. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady red eyes.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He now spends his time doing works of charity.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Nature, Religious. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.