Description: A 4'7" eastern woman, she wears tan painted combat armor at almost all times. Her hair is short and chestnut. Her eyes are green.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. Vadania enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She got into the Painter business at a young age. A gifted student she started as a Soapmaker, but she got bored and became a Painter. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: To be a Soapmaker again; and expand her business

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 110 gp. Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp).

Description: This man wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He wears his white hair up. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears suspenders and black workpants. Her shirt is white, and she wears a heavy black leather apron most of the time. Her copper crest is kept up in a ponytail inside a top hat. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Athletic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this western man wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His deerstalker hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has green eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the west. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, violet shirt, and tan tie. His hair is chestnut and curly. His skin is flawless and his brown eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: Scrag hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Scrag is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 8000 cp.

Description: He wears a fancy white suit, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. His eyes are blue and catlike.

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 takes great joy in being the best Blacksmith in town.

History: He got into the Blacksmith business at a young age. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He struck the Blacksmith job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and balancing his hectic life and new blacksmith responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Philantrophist, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally she sports a red coat. Her blonde hair, when down, is lengthy. Her brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: She was born in the south, but her parents moved at a very young age to the east. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has since married many spouses, only to have them die. She claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Immigrant, In love, Enemies. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left hand, he wears a tight fitting grey shirt and pants. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Beloril was born the youngest of three triplets. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and doesn't want to be a mayor and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A 3'4" eastern man, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. His auburn hair is braided into rings. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving The war was a terrible time for him, and Jebeddo does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. 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 Stableman. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Military, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 250 gp.