Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He keeps his long brown fur kept up in a rat tail. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Aura was born with his mother's beautiful face. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Guardian. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: A finely crafted rug of intricate, geometric designs worked with silver threading (10 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. With bright golden hair and a scraggly beard. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears tattered old clothes. His crest is red and curly. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Shy. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather, and a wedding ring on her right hand. She wears her auburn hair up. Her hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Balifra was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Balifra never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her mother had trained her before.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Addict, Depressed. Bonds: In love, Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Chain shirt. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he dresses like a well dressed Dilettante does. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is baby faced.

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 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: Modean lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Modean grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Modean. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears baggy green pantaloons and a brown scarf. His purple hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are likewise black.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Qemuel embodies much of what other species detest in the Tieflings. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. Through the years after Qemuel was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Qemuel'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's repulsed by the PC; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 80 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a colorful flower in his black hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Traki grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Traki. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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

Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized white coat. Her brown hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. Her hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She disdains her fellow easterners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her bastard sword with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly bastard swords and longswords. She has done her best to style her silver hair to look like a famous performer. Her gray unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Bookbinder profession.

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. As a young adult she joined a group advocating for an improvement in Halfling conditions. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Flaws: Disease, Racist, Insomniac. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 210 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.