Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and usually wears his grey robe and has his kukri always slung over his shoulder. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born in a small desert village. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and to unite with his brother

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Sculptor. His beige fur is singed and shortened. His copper eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker brown hat.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He tends to his Sculptor job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Sculptor responsibilities is difficult.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He wears tattered old clothes. His blue crest has been sun bleached extensively. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. When Baradad reached his early adolescence his Dragonborn father 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. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by gnolls. Baradad was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 240 gp. Red spinel (40 gp). Jade (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He carries with him a set of falchions on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. His crest is cut close to his head. His red eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He became a Mercenary soon after.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. 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 her brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born into a rich family. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Opinionated, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He keeps his long red fur kept up in a rat tail. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a Mercenary first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the west to a Mercenary, Flask learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away; and he wants revenge against orcs

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 500 sp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (90 gp).

Description: Standing 2'11", this man wears suspenders and white workpants. His shirt is tan, and he wears a heavy white leather apron most of the time. His hair is cut close to his head. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Abrasive and pushy, he has a hard time making friends. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: Tomi was born the youngest of three triplets. He 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Shepherd and was forced into it by his family; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is dressed in an above average manner. Her auburn hair is cut short. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her father and mother. Her father taught her the rudiments of the Fletcher arts, while her mother instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and doesn't want to be a fletcher and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Onyx (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (4 gp). 1 Antitoxin.

Description: This woman wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. Her violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. Emma enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

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. After coming to the age of reason, Emma took it upon herself to study the divine arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 1 Backpack.