Description: This late middle aged woman wears blue trousers with yellow and brown striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts and is in decent physical shape. With bright chestnut hair. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: A grumpy gal she will invite people to lunch so she can critique them. Yet she still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Veloptima was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Gnomish companion (her 'brother'). She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 8000 cp. 1 Good lock.

Description: This eastern woman's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, she slurs her words together. She wears just a black suit. Her long copper crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She has two modes she varies between. On the job she is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job she is a party animal. The war was a terrible time for her, and Megren does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Megren was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Barkeep. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Barkeep for the past few years.

Motivation: Expand her business; and she loathes her own lifestyle

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Depressed. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 110 gp. Deep green spinel (160 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears a colorful flower in her red hair. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She comes from a rich western family. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. 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: Wants her loneliness to end; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 50 gp. Amethyst (80 gp).

Description: She is in excellent shape and is renowned for her bright tan dresses and hats. Her head has been shaved. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Callybon is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. Callybon 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 Dilettante business at a young age. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Callybon was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has achieved small success as a Dilettante.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: He wears just a brown suit. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his axe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a dagger on it. His beige fur, when down, is lengthy. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. 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: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Some 2 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Pelt never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Bonds: Slave, In love, Debt. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork studded leather.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing a long, black cloak. He has a very tight haircut. He has green eyes and a black hat with a white feather.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Bather. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Sold as a small child to a necromancer, Lubash was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. He tends to his Bather job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

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

Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor, Job, Mentor, Nature. Occupation: Bather

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears well tailored suits and hats with beautiful decoration. He is almost always dressed for an outing in high society, and is pretty ugly. He has a white handlebar mustache and slicked back white hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: A child with a great deal of dancing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted arcane powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Light steel shield.

Description: She is a physically imposing light-skinned woman. She wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her long black hair reaches down to her waist. This violet eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 35. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Through the years after Dalaba was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Dalaba's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 60 gp. Sardonyx (20 gp).

Description: He stands about 6'4" and is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His hair is short and dark red. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Xappan is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. A fanatic, his devotion to his small selection of gods is unquestionable. He claims to be doing their will and will base all his actions on whether or not they would be pleasing to the gods.

History: Born to a Mercenary, his father struggled to pay the bills. While he appears to be a normal Tiefling, 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's also a talented Mercenary, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Religious, Poor. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 10000 cp. Rock crystal (20 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp).