Description: This southern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears just a blue suit. She has slicked back blonde hair. Her eyes are green and catlike.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Traulam was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Through the years after Traulam was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Traulam's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a tan vest and prefers blue and brown shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Peren grew up listening to his mother's many stories. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature bow.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears tattered old clothes. Her golden hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born in the north. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Halflings in the north were limited. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 40 pp. Rhodochrosite (13 gp).

Description: An older man who wears silk and lounges about seductively, he is not a threatening figure. He wears a colorful flower in his gold crest. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Ildrex is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. At a young age he wooed the heart of his future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 4'0" and wears a brown collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a green scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. He has blonde hair. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. After coming to the age of reason, Vondal took it upon himself to study the psionic arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 gp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. His red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

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 comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, red, dusty cloak. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise green. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Job. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This tall, slender man wears a black cloak and cross-gartered green stockings. His copper crest is unkempt and raggedy. His ears are large.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature axe.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 150 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp).

Description: This fat western man has a bulbous nose and wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. Simon is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Simon was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 14 years.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Family, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 100 gp. 2 Tanglefoot bags.