Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing brown cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. Her hair is white and very short. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by giants, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: With tan face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. She wears her golden hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. 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. After a long history of fighting, Nissa and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 4000 cp. Sard (80 gp). Rose (80 gp).

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her red hair is well kept. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

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 is harsh and unforgiving.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. After a long history of fighting, Emma and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'1". He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured, and his gloved hand is found clutching a lance. He has wavy brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Nazû was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Nazû grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Nazû. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her crest is rusty and curly. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Scribe who has hired her part-time. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. 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: Wants her loneliness to end.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. His white fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. Five was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Five decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: 3'11" and muscular, this northern woman wears suspenders and brown workpants. Her shirt is green, and she wears a heavy brown leather apron most of the time. She wears a colorful flower in her brown hair. Her eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. Further she is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While she appears to be a normal Dwarf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her fur is gray and curly. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tabaxis became a terror of the countryside. Recently a tribe of illithids attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Serpent fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Addict. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His hair is short and golden. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Hupe is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. Some 9 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Hupe never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Extrovert, Impeccable, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 400 gp. White pearl (140 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Black star sapphire (800 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.