Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a simple red robe with pastel stripes complete with hood. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Pikar hails from a village terrorized by drow. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Pikar has worked very hard to control his curse. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This man wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His head has been shaved. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Shane 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 money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Carpenter hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: She wears a fancy brown dress. She is portly but not overly obese. Her fur is cut close to her head. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes gnolls are coming to abduct people. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing dancing.

History: Born to a Shoemaker, her mother struggled to pay the bills. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She now spends her time doing works of charity.

Motivation: Regain custody of her daughter; and many gnolls want her driven away

Ideals: Artistic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Poor, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 180 gp. Obsidian (4 gp). 3 Smokesticks.

Description: She sports red clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her moppish golden hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Bather business.

History: She was born in a small forest village. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has drifted apart from her friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature rapier.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 140 gp. Onyx (50 gp).

Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his quarterstaff with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has no crest. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: Arjhan was raised in a hard working conservative environment. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Mercenary again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Job, Nature. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is renowned for his bright yellow suits and hats. His long auburn hair reaches down to his waist. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was granted divine powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 90 gp. Zircon (60 gp).

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries a battered nunchaku and tarnished flail as well. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. He has blue eyes.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. The war was a terrible time for him, and Oppleby does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he loathes his own lifestyle

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Military. Occupation: Server

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, yellow cloak. His hair is short and white. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Heward will drive conversation. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Heward lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and to reunite with his absent father

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears just a brown suit. Her blonde hair is heavily combed to the left. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Avelina was born on a far northern plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her mother, an expert Dilettante. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the north; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.