Description: A plain young-adult woman, she has the majority of her body covered in plate. She has moderate length golden hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of dire rats once and for all.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Shava was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. She has achieved small success as a Sage.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Enemies, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 70 gp. Deep green spinel (100 gp).

Description: This man wears baggy brown pantaloons and a blue scarf. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized opal on his left hand. His auburn hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. This amber eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. Now he works as a music tutor during his time off.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 2200 sp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. She wears a brown shirt with thin black vertical stripes and pastel pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. With bright brown hair. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Insane, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 20 gp. Onyx (50 gp).

Description: This late middle aged woman wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment and is in decent physical shape. Her white hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She was granted druidic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist, Insane. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Azurite (10 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. Her silver hair is long and unkept. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: Quiet and reserved she prefers to listen than to talk. She will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend.

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Silver pearl (140 gp). Banded agate (11 gp). Jet (140 gp).

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He typically wears yellow cloth garments or leather armor. His black hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Arnold lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. While he appears to be a normal Half-Elf, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His blonde hair is heavily combed to the right. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He is an amazing painter.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His necromantic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). Her black hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Eloise has worked very hard to control her curse. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: She wears a tan cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She carries a battered flail and tarnished spear as well. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady brown eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Knight hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Sumnes 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, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 290 gp.