Description: She is scrawny and has patchy white stubble. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her kukri with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has a hunchback. Her white hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 270 gp. Lapis lazuli (15 gp).

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing violet cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He has a auburn handlebar mustache and slicked back auburn hair. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his writing with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and doesn't want to be a courier and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears suspenders and pastel workpants. His shirt is violet, and he wears a heavy pastel leather apron most of the time. He carries with him a set of spears on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His orange fur is heavily combed to the right. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Bowyer profession.

History: Shivering was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Bookbinder. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate, Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 130 gp. Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy red hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Because his mother participated in the massacre of their homeland, gnolls burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the west, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his father from journeying west to reunite his family. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Thokk fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1500 sp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: This western woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears an entirely green suit with yellow socks and a vest with buckled shoes. She keeps her purple hair in a pixie cut. Her silver unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is obsessed with her god.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 500 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His blonde hair is knotted and matted. His violet eyes peer out from beneath his top grey hat.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born in a small mountains village. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Red garnet (110 gp).

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has moderate length golden hair. This brown eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She considers herself the protector of her home. She feels this is her duty and calling. A true patriot, Lidda would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Cook arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She has gold eyes and a green hat with a white feather.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Sorath grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Joker, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Slave, Adventurer, Immigrant. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. Her blue hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Her necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 cp. Brown-green garnet (120 gp).