Description: This late middle aged man likes to wear grey tank tops with tan pants and is in decent physical shape. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing painting.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 Shoemaker. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and expand his business

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. His philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: Tomi was born with his father's beautiful face. He found a children's book about a Halfling Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 90 gp. Peridot (50 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Red spinel (90 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: A deeply religious woman she believes everything happens for a reason. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Addict, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 70 gp. Coral (50 gp).

Description: He is in excellent shape and wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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. After a long history of fighting, Balam and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 390 gp. Red-brown spinel (50 gp). 3 Thunderstones.

Description: His left side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His hair is brown and curly. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. 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: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when illithids swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This dark-skinned male is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 80 gp. Jet (110 gp). 1 Buckler.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Farmer does. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly rapiers and maces. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. This amber eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A rival would like him out of the picture.

Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Guardian, Immigrant, In love. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Red-brown spinel (110 gp).

Description: She tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her fur is gray and curly. She has blue eyes and a brown hat with a black feather.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Lone is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Shepherd arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and doesn't want to be a shepherd and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: This woman tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her golden hair, when down, is lengthy. Her violet eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted, Justice. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 100 sp.