Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a long, tan cloak. He is bald on top and has large black tufts of hair around his ears. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Guardian, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His hair is silver and curly. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Heian enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Heian was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Heian grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Heian. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Banded mail. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 3'0" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her red hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a ruthless business woman, a trait she acquired from her father.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She was a friend to animals and a trickster. In her defense of animals however she would do severe harm to people. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Disciplined, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'3" when asserting himself. His hair is chestnut, silky, and of moderate length. His green eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is an amazing painter.

History: He got into the Mercenary business at a young age. 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. Recently the stress of being a Mercenary has made it difficult for him to sleep.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 500 sp. Red-brown spinel (40 gp). 2 Holy water.

Description: She is an average looking southern female in her early mid-life. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her silver hair is cut short. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Through the years after Urshar was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Urshar's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Terse, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is typically in her Ruler uniform. Her red hair is cut short. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Her druidic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her druidic talents. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Ruler for the past few years.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and balancing her hectic life and new ruler responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty brown coat over it. His fur is short and cinnamon. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a blue coat with black slacks, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'4" when asserting herself. She has styled her blue hair well, parting it to the right. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 88. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. To her fellows she is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: When she was but 4 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: A deep hatred of brigands; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears bulky red painted plate armor. Her hair, while still mostly blonde, has prominent grey streaks. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. Nikki enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 90 gp.