Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He was born into a rich family. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He carries with him a set of falchions, each one with a ruby on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Curran isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Halfling unity. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born in the north to a Bellfounder, Curran learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Bellfounder for the past few years.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Slave, Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: She dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She has dyed her greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Around other people she will do her best to conceal her emotions and appear jolly.

History: She was born into a rich family. 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: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Orc artifacts is her passion; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. He has gray eyes.

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. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. A gifted student he started as a Herbalist, but he got bored and became a Sculptor. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to be a herbalist again

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Religious, Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep blue leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears her golden hair up. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Althaea isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Elven unity. A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Elves in Althaea's homeland. Althaea decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Impeccable, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Tiefling, and stands approximately 6'3". She is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape, and her gloved hand is found clutching a dagger. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are black.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Dyer. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she would like to get married and retire

Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her copper crest is long and unkept. Her eyes are red.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 400 gp. 4 Tanglefoot bags. 3 Thunderstones. 1 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he sports blue clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He wears his chestnut hair down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: He was born in the south. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural half-orc artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 60 gp. Hematite (16 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear tan clothing when he does not wear armor. He is physically well-built. His black hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Joker, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 10000 cp.