Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His gray fur is greasy and uncared for. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. A true patriot, Shifting would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy; and money/treasure

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He very much looks the part of a Dilettante. He has a chestnut handlebar mustache and slicked back chestnut hair. His amber eyes are slightly larger than normal.

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. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Nicholas is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 Dilettante. He has worked as a Dilettante like his mother before him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and balancing his hectic life and new dilettante responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Justice, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 140 gp. Amethyst (50 gp).

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 wears a tan costume with the symbols of the sun god on her torso. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She is kind towards other women and children and will generally offer women help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to her.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her father always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. While she appears to be a normal Gnome, 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 betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a blue scarf. She carries with her a set of scimitars, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. Her silver hair is braided into rings. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her green eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. Zanna was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Slave Trader. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 5'6" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. Her long golden hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. She likes to tell stories.

History: Bethrynna was born in the west. At a young age she loved to build and create. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Fearful, Disease, Mundane. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. This green eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist she will grow angry at them.

History: She got into the Painter business at a young age. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Painter responsibilities is difficult; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Flaws: Hedonist, Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 20 pp. Peridot (70 gp).

Description: 6'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. He has done his best to style his blue crest to look like a famous performer. His eyes are gold and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: Rathkran lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Fisher, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Sardonyx (50 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs and is in decent physical shape. Her black hair is braided into rings. She has a dull look in her silver eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. In her 17th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Mastema alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has been saving her money to try and buy her brother's freedom.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Guardian, Enemies, Poor, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it, marred by sweets. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. She does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. In her 16th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Neega alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Breastplate.