Description: This dark-skinned male wears dark leathers with embroidery. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His hair is auburn and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady brown eyes.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has worked as a Mercenary like his mother before him.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and balancing his hectic life and new mercenary responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Has a crush, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This man is wearing a long, grey cloak, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are brown.

Personality: He hates goblins. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Humans.

History: When he was but 6 years old his parents immigrated from the east. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Tiefling people.

Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Enemies, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is an average looking northern female in her early mid-life. She prefers to wear flannel. Her red hair is still thick. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Occupation: Carter

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears tattered old clothes. Her long silver hair reaches down to her waist. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her small yellow hat.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 160 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. Her golden hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. This blue eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is a Bookbinder first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. Energy wise she seems alert and responsive.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Williamina liked to wander the woods near her home when she was young, something she still likes to do at least once a week. She never liked modest clothing or shoes, so she would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and she developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

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 a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Poor, Job, Immigrant, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 330 gp.

Description: He very much looks the part of a Dilettante. His black fur is heavily combed to the right. His yellow eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Cask embodies much of what other species detest in the Tabaxis. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: He was born in a small desert village. 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 drifted from career to career and currently works as a Dilettante.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Dilettante responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Nature, Attractive. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has a brown handlebar mustache and slicked back brown hair. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He disdains his fellow easterners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. 1 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple black line shooting up and back down. His hair is black and very short. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: Dain hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. The war was a terrible time for him, and Dain does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Standing 5'7", this man wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He has black hair. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes goblins are coming to abduct people. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Gifted from a young age, Halimath studied abroad. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Banker. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Enemies, Job. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 600 sp.