Description: This late middle aged man wears baggy black pantaloons and a pastel scarf and is in decent physical shape. His hair is short and white. His gray eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his mother. A gifted student he started as a Sage, but he got bored and became a Painter. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 190 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: She is typically in her Gardener uniform, and she perpetually has her bastard sword ready. Her black hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends she is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy herself. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: Standing 5'10", this man tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. He has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: Kairon speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

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.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He sports a long chestnut beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Shepherd hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable; and he's looking for his big break

Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Immigrant, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She is wearing a tight red one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. Her silver hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: She got into the Bellfounder business at a young age. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He keeps his red crest in a flapper bob. His skin is flawless and his red eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He disdains his fellow westerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ghesh 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 he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 18000 cp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She carries a battered bastard sword and tarnished greataxe as well. She has styled her black crest well, parting it to the left. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Doudra was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Doudra 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 loathes her own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Gardener

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

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her brown hair is greasy and uncared for. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Born to a Bather, her father struggled to pay the bills. Through the years after Galiena was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Galiena's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Galiena and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 40 gp.

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he likes to wear brown tank tops with black pants. His hair is auburn and very short. His eyes are likewise amber.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Dyer but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His first spouse was a Fortune-teller, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and doesn't want to be a dyer and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 390 gp.