Description: This late middle aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze and is in decent physical shape. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His skin is flawless and his hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 50 gp. 1 Silk rope.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a glaive on his belt, and is pretty ugly. His hair is dark red and curly. His white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. She has wavy black hair. Her blue eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. While she appears to be a normal Half-Orc, 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 was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears bulky violet painted plate armor. He has no hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 500 sp.

Description: She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt, and she perpetually has her greataxe ready. She has a very tight haircut. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Torgga lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her sister

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His head has been shaved. He has amber eyes.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Diggory and his spouse have recently divorced.

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

Ideals: Philantrophist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'10" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. Her hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She hates Elves with a passion. As such she is filled with self loathing. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: Vadania hails from a village terrorized by drow. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to drow demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and a deep hatred of drow

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he prefers to wear flannel. His moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are amber.

Personality: Dorn hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. 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 Bowyer. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bowyer for hire.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her lance, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a butterfly on it. With bright chestnut hair. Her eyes are gray.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Jacoba abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 130 gp. Pink pearl (160 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.