Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty blue coat over it. She has no hair. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Mara is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Mara was born the youngest of three triplets. While she appears to be a normal Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and doesn't want to be a fortune-teller and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He has styled his orange fur well, parting it to the left. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look, marred by sweets. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. His eyes are likewise violet.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: Shane was born the youngest of three triplets. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. Some 8 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Shane never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He is content; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Family, In love. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 80 gp. Alexandrite (200 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His crest is red, silky, and of moderate length. His red eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Tarhun was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

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

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 230 gp.

Description: This man wears silk and lounges about seductively. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized jet on his right hand. He has wavy black hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Revenge.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 180 gp. Coral (120 gp). Zircon (30 gp). Star ruby (600 gp).

Description: He tends to wear a large yellow jacket, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'9" when asserting himself. He has blonde hair. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He lacks moral complications. He does what he is told to by employers but not much else. He spends his money on whatever he fancies at the time.

History: He was born in the east. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He struck the Farmer job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over her head. Her moppish brown hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Cartwright for the past few years.

Motivation: To reunite with her absent father; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Rich, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp).

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. He wears his red hair down. His brown eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker blue hat.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Crown-heir. Her brown hair is thinning but still full. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She likes to be helpful to her clients. She likes to prescribe proper advice to her clients. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She is a Metallic Dragon in disguise. In her 13th year, her parents were killed by a dire rats raid, leaving Myria alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 6 years.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the south; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Nature, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: Solid gold idol (900 gp). 1 Minor magic item.