Description: This woman is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her golden hair has been sun bleached extensively. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. When Anastrianna reached her early adolescence her Elf father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. 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 a kiss; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Military, Has a crush. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An older man who wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt, he is not a threatening figure. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Pelaios enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Pelaios was raised in a hard working conservative environment. A gifted student he started as a Doctor, but he got bored and became a Tanner. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 15 years.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather. He carries a battered pickaxe and tarnished greataxe as well. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Elaim 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; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Cynical, Insane. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 40 gp. Coral (150 gp).

Description: This woman stands a little under 6'2" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She wears her bronze crest down. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. Flattery will make her almost putty in your hands.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Antagonistic, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. With bright auburn hair and a scraggly beard. He has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Adventurer they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Tanner, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to unite with his sister

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Family, In love, Nature. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 60 gp. Coral (50 gp).

Description: He stands about 5'2" and tends to wear a grey poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His tied-back hair is auburn. His half smiles and green eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. She keeps her red hair in a pixie cut. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Sensitive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a green Stetson hat and green clothes. Her silver hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise gold. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and to settle down with her crush

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1100 sp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. Her attire stands in sharp contrast to her scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a card on it. She has a very tight haircut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when orcs swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. While she appears to be a normal Halfling, 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 has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and she desires to right it; and many orcs want her driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Has a crush, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.