Description: This late middle aged man wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants and is in decent physical shape. His white hair is singed and shortened. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Blacksmith business.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His clothes are grease stained in places. His fur is yellow, silky, and of moderate length. His green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 Merchant. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Merchant for the past few years.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and likes to wear ponchos typically of a light violet in addition to tight pants. Her red hair is thinning but still full. Her gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Sage work with an outfit from a few towns over. Sage work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Sage and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His golden hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Through the years after Hoshgrish was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Hoshgrish's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: Amethyst (80 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears a grey costume with the symbols of strength on her torso. Her auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has blue eyes.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. 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: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent mother; and to unite with her sister

Ideals: Philantrophist, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'3" when asserting herself. She wears her dark red hair down. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Gifted from a young age, Hecat studied abroad. Her divine abilities were realized during a raid on her village. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hecat fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She's in love; and she would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 150 gp. Star rose quartz (40 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her hair is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. Being a Soapmaker kept her interest for a while, but then she became depressed and bored. So she turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

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.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Sensitive, Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 sp. Peridot (20 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat. His blonde hair is cut short. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Painter profession.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Servant for the past few years.

Motivation: To be a Painter again; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Selfish, Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears an entirely tan suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. 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 Layabout. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Theriatis never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: In love, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 700 sp.