Description: This fat northern woman has a bulbous nose and wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a blue scarf. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Crown-heir they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Interpreter, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Jet (50 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide her balding. Her skin is flawless and her gray eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and she has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a green coat with grey slacks. He wears his black hair down. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: Veit hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He tends to wear a large yellow jacket. His head has been shaved. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Shepherd who has hired him part-time. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. When Balimaar reached his early adolescence his Half-Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's in love; and to settle down with his crush

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Has a crush, Military. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a white shirt, with a tan mid length skirt with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She is a Farmer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Paela was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has worked as a Farmer like her father before her.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This late middle aged man wears a yellow cloak and cross-gartered green stockings and is in decent physical shape. He has no hair. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: A powerful slaver made him what he is. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 130 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born to a Junk Dealer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. After coming to the age of reason, Simon took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To be a Junk Dealer again; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 3 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He typically wears blue cloth garments or leather armor. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His red hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 210 gp. Onyx (30 gp). Iolite (30 gp). Zircon (30 gp). 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a fancy brown suit. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His hair is brown, silky, and of moderate length. His eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing singing.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. 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 Assassin. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 110 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp).