Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears blue painted combat armor at almost all times. His black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a broad hat. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Ribbles lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Sculptor. He's also a talented Doctor, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Sculptor and was forced into it by his family; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 sp. Red spinel (160 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. He has worked as a Shoemaker like his mother before him.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 200 sp. Silver pearl (60 gp).

Description: She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep brown leather and dull black iron scale mail. She is portly but not overly obese. With bright auburn hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family A freak accident while working with her Adventurer father left her crippled. She used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record, Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Servant. She has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. Giselle 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 was raised in a desert tribe. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Family, Nature. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She wears a simple black robe with blue stripes complete with hood. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly monstrous two handed axes and ceremonial daggers. She wears a colorful flower in her dark red hair. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Ronobe was born on a far northern island where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Map Maker. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and she uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Criminal record, Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He stands about 6'2" and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His crest is short and brass. He has red eyes.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Elven culture. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Kriv 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. Kriv abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: Standing 6'8", this woman wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and grey pants. Her crest is cut close to her head. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is a woman who does what she needs to. She will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. She takes great joy in being the best Guard in town.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Sora was a troubled youth. She spent her days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent her evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Sora decided she wanted neither the life of her mother nor that of the evil petty criminals she associated with. During her early adolescence, she took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She wants to get laid; and further expansion of business

Bonds: Criminal record, Job, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright tan and brown, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She carries a battered longsword and tarnished greataxe as well. She has shaved her head bald. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. On top of that she is swayed by a pretty face, and while loyalty to her employer will always come first she doesn't like to hit women.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Caramip grew up listening to her father's many stories. She found a children's book about a Gnome Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. She modeled her life after the story, seeing herself destined a hero. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is her passion; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush, Adventurer. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 280 gp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Red spinel (100 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. He carries with him a set of morningstars on his belt, each one with a aquamarine on the hilt. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

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. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He would ruin relationships and cause injury. He was reprimanded several times before being given his current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 110 gp. Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp).