Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a black tunic with green highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He has done his best to style his golden hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are hazel.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Karash embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. 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. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. His hair is dark red, silky, and of moderate length. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Rimmon was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He became a Barkeep soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg.

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: 5'8" and lanky with angular features, she is an attractive figure. She wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length brown fur. She has gleaming, smiling copper eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 6'6" and muscular, this western woman wears tattered old clothes. Her bronze crest is knotted and matted. Her red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She fancies herself a trickster and likes to rely on her wits to carry the day. She cares for her older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born into a rich family. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She's also a talented Guard, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Job, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 360 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she very much looks the part of a Adventurer. She has dyed her greying silver hair a little too much giving a sharp silver color. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Born in the west to a Adventurer, Alice learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Adventurer and found it very stressful. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Tourmaline (80 gp). 7 Acid flasks.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with red colored cloaks and clothing. He sports a flattop hair cut. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. Any perceived weakness will be pressed and exploited. He is seen as merciless and passionate.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bowyer for hire.

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 sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His brown hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Human companion (his 'brother'). He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a simple tan robe with violet stripes complete with hood. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: This petite short woman is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. She wears baggy tan pantaloons and a violet scarf, marred by beers. Sporting a red mohawk this woman's hair draws a lot of attention. Her ears are large.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was raised by priests from a young age. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Smokesticks.