Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Military. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools.

Description: This fat southern woman has a bulbous nose and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her skin is also unnaturally pale. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her ears are large.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. From there she went from mercenary job to mercenary job. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk.

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears a green coat over a tan low-cut shirt, and a feathered hat upon her head. Her crest, while still mostly brass, has prominent grey streaks. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She is a Doppelganger in disguise. She always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 200 gp. 4 Thunderstones. 3 Smokesticks. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mortician. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating she would invite many more into her home than her spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. She lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: When she was but 8 years old her parents immigrated from the east. In her youth she was part of a gang. She got caught, but did not rat out her comrades and served her time in prison. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Impulsive, Addict. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 2'10" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He very much looks the part of a Guard. He wears a wide-brimmed hat to hide his balding. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Guard who has hired him part-time. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He got into the Guard business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Guard. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Guard

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She wears tattered old clothes. Her skin is fair and her fingers are delicate and long. She wears her white hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her martial abilities were realized during a raid on her village. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This northern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He dresses like a well dressed Scribe does. His hair is long and golden with streaks of black, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is black, braided, and well cared for. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born in the north to a Scribe, Ortegar learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has achieved small success as a Scribe.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Shy. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 900 sp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. His chestnut hair and beard is wavy and long. He has violet eyes and a blue hat with a grey feather.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Religious, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'6" when asserting himself. His red hair is singed and shortened. His ears are large.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

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

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 120 gp.