Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She usually wears her red robe and has her sai always slung over her shoulder. Her black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her eyes are amber and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She takes great joy in being the best Cook in town.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Gynnie 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 Gynnie. She then took over the family business and is one of the better Cook for hire.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Bonds: Job, Military, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Cook

Voice: American accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This fat eastern woman has a bulbous nose and wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her skin is also unnaturally pale. She has no hair. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk she knows how to make people feel guilty. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Fortune-teller profession.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. He has hazel eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of gnolls may trigger it at times.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. Some 4 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Ozyman never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Enemies, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 190 gp.

Description: He prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs, and carries warhammers. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy white hair. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He does suffer from mild PTSD, and the sight of dire rats may trigger it at times.

History: Gifted from a young age, Erdan studied abroad. Because his father participated in the massacre of their homeland, dire rats burned their ranch to the ground and forced them out. He was preparing to flee to the south, but the outbreak of war prevented him and his mother from journeying south to reunite his family. 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; and he is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. As a young adult he joined a group advocating for an improvement in Half-Orc conditions. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Shy, Racist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 130 gp. Red spinel (60 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This light-skinned female wears blue trousers with white and pastel striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. She has wavy golden hair. Her eyes are hazel.

Personality: Lia speaks confidently about a variety of topics with grace. She is clearly well-traveled and educated. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She has achieved small success as a Dilettante.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and she's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Impeccable, Opinionated. Bonds: Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. His red hair is long and unkept. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is light but he possesses many brown ritualistic tattoos. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. With bright red hair and a scraggly beard. His brown eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. Further he is a bit of a stoner and is frequently out of it.

History: He was born in the east. 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 east, certain he would find work there.

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

Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 360 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She carries a battered warhammer and tarnished halberd as well. Her chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

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 is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insomniac, Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.