Description: He wears tattered old clothes. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished pickaxe as well. His blonde hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Naeris fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: Red spinel (150 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. Phelaia is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her brothers into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Guardian, Family, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 6000 cp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (300 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Manea is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. A freak accident while working with her Carter father left her crippled. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Mundane, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 110 pp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). She has moderate length auburn hair. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Navigator, but she got bored and became a Shoemaker. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Justice, Logical. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 sp. Solid gold idol (900 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (20 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (20 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing dark-skinned man. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with violet colored cloaks and clothing. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Roofer; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: An older woman who wears a pastel armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down, she is not a threatening figure. Her deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are copper.

Personality: She is witty, but her monotone delivery comes off as unnerving A fanatic, her devotion to her small selection of gods is unquestionable. She claims to be doing their will and will base all her actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Through the years after Beast was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the west. Beast's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (300 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body. Her tied-back hair is silver. Her amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Chenna embodies much of what other species detest in the Halflings. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Chenna and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears green trousers with white and brown striped suspenders. He wears various colorful collared shirts. His brown hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Roofer. He has achieved small success as a Roofer.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and to be a mortician again

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Nature, Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the east his family was never financially stable. His first spouse was a Weaver, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 1000 cp.