Description: This man wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: Vondal speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. He is clearly well-traveled and educated. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing dancing.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family While he appears to be a normal Dwarf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She has a missing left leg. She wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has wavy silver hair. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She speaks before she thinks and is too direct. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her mother. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered singing. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her gray eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

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. Her father disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her father, she was betrayed dozens of times. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a priest and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is renowned for her bright green dresses and hats. She keeps her long purple hair kept up in a rat tail. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She hates brigands. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: She was raised in a island tribe. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Merchant they were divorced and she won custody of their son. She worked as a Baker, and she later adopted a second son.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and to unite with her brother

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 160 gp. Red garnet (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she tends to wear a large yellow jacket. Her golden hair is wavy and long. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She's a bit of a prankster. She knows she is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Katherine was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Mentor, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (50 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. He wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a longsword, but if one is not available he will default to his scythe. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He keeps his long brass crest kept up in a rat tail. His red eyes peer out from beneath his small green hat.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. 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; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Slave, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 18000 cp.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She wears a red costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on her torso. Her red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. Her eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. She worked as a nervous Shepherd and found it very stressful. She tends to her Shepherd job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, Military, Job, Debt. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 20 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). 2 Thunderstones.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a blue costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His head has been shaved. His ears are large.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gifted student he started as a Barkeep, but he got bored and became a Sculptor. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Sculptor for hire.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 260 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

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 is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

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 is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 130 gp.