Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. With bright black hair. Her eyes are likewise green.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: Born to a Barkeep, her mother struggled to pay the bills. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She struck the Brewer job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family, Poor, In love. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 3000 sp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'6" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a cross scrunchie. His blue eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Cloak hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'5". He dresses well, wearing black shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time. He sports a flattop hair cut. His black eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Slave Trader but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Akmen was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. 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 has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He is content; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Bloodstone (80 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a grey costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He has brown eyes.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A gifted student he started as a Soapmaker, but he got bored and became a Barkeep. 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: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Guardian, Job, Rich, Enemies. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. Her golden hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Cocky and sure of herself, she believes she is the best Animal Trainer born in the past three hundred years. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The father sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. She saw this and took pride in her father's willingness to do anything to win. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Animal Trainer for the past few years.

Motivation: She possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'10". She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her hair is auburn, silky, and of moderate length. Her amber eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: The child of western immigrants she idolized her mother. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and she feels threatened by others

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 800 sp. Obsidian (7 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She stands about 3'10" and is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. Her left hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her hair is white and curly. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. When Falkrunn reached her early adolescence her Dwarf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. After a long history of fighting, Falkrunn and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This late middle aged man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it and is in decent physical shape. His auburn hair is long and unkept. His eyes are a pleasant violet.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Dworic was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Dworic was born on a far northern island where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Server. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Mentor, Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her eyes are brown and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Half-Orc compassion; and she possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Flaws: Antagonistic, Racist. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 11000 cp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.