Description: He wears baggy green pantaloons and a black scarf, and carries warhammers. His crest is bronze and very short. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 230 gp. Malachite (4 gp).

Description: He is renowned for his bright grey suits and hats. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly falchions and flails. With a patchy auburn beard and wild auburn hair. He has violet eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in the north to a Seamstress, Kildrak learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature falchion.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 210 gp.

Description: She is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak, and carries daggers. Her hair, while still mostly purple, has prominent grey streaks. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. 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: A powerful slaver made her what she is. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has a rivalry with the church that dominates her actions

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: 6'2" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown hair. She has gleaming, smiling gold eyes.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

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. She always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He prefers to wear flannel. His red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He struck the Actor job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. His hair is black and very short. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Religious, In love. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: She wears baggy white pantaloons and a blue scarf. She carries with her a set of glaives on her belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Her auburn hair is thinning but still full. Her blue unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: A powerful necromancer made her what she is. A freak accident while working with her Gardener mother left her crippled. 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. Vanchu 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's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Good lock.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears baggy black pantaloons and a blue scarf. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is a Layabout first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. She is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family She worked as a nervous Layabout and found it very stressful. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 12 years.

Motivation: To be a Soapmaker again; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Poor, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: This woman very much looks the part of a Herbalist, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She has a very tight haircut. Her amber eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with painting. She constantly tries to fill her life with painting. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Xanaphia grew up listening to her mother's many stories. She worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 150 gp.