Description: This woman wears tan robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a scythe, but if one is not available she will default to her shortbow. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her white hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Shanairla is depressed about a lot of things. She tends to be a nihilist. She pushes her goals aggressively. She is also a coward if confronted.

History: Shanairla 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 made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dragonborn artifacts is her passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Flaws: Depressed, Fearful. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her black hair is still thick. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She is quite rude, and likes to deride her opponents skill and shout insults at them. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Born to a Fletcher, her father struggled to pay the bills. Ostracized due to the martial powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Gnomes became a terror of the countryside. After a long history of fighting, Bimpnottin and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: 5'5" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. His white eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

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 has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: He was born in the east. 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 Assassin. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Assassin for hire.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Assassin responsibilities is difficult; and to be a stableman again

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and she feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable, Logical. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'9" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. His long chestnut hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Charles will drive conversation. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Charles was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He's in love; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Military, Nature, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his dagger with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has moderate length brown hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

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

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered singing. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Priest. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end.

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 300 sp. Deep blue spinel (200 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears a tight fitting yellow shirt and pants. He has chestnut hair. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Nim embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Elves. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Nim hails from a village terrorized by brigands. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. After a long history of fighting, Nim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by brigands, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 800 sp. Cloth of gold vestments (50 gp).

Description: This man is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Junk Dealer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He moved out east to avoid the crime he committed. He became a Junk Dealer soon after.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. She is an epitome of beauty. She keeps her silver hair in a pixie cut. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. The occasional robbery is her preferred attention getting crime, but she mainly uses her means for meeting her own perverse desires.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 200 gp. An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (60 gp). Solid gold idol (300 gp).