Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He wears tattered old clothes. His crest is cut close to his head. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Miner profession.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Job. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 50 gp. Rhodochrosite (14 gp).

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, and he perpetually has his greatsword ready. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Jebeddo abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 gp. Banded agate (5 gp).

Description: This malnourished woman prefers to wear green clothing when she does not wear armor. Her blue hair is greasy and uncared for. Her white eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, she has a hard time making friends. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Ishte 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 was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He tends to wear a large blue jacket. He is physically well-built. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He uses divination through singing.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. In his 18th year, his parents were killed by a illithids raid, leaving Gerbo alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. She is baby faced.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She worked as a nervous Ploughman and found it very stressful. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To protect her home; and to be a mortician again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Nature, Guardian. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 40 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His hair, while still mostly silver, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are green.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1100 gp).

Description: She wears a worn and beaten armor, and she perpetually has her shortbow ready. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Alice wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Sorcerer, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Guard but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Bloodstone (70 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears tattered old clothes. His hair is long and red with streaks of silver, and is pulled back with small blue clips. His beard is silver, braided, and well cared for. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Carrie embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. After a long history of fighting, Carrie and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She is renowned for her bright violet dresses and hats. She has a long chestnut ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. She is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories she has discovered

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Elves in the north were limited. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Chain shirt.