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 fur is short and yellow. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines amber.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Shifting hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her parents were killed by dire rats in a raid when she was still a young child. The dire rats captured her, and made her a slave and general play-thing. She was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to her deformed appearance. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Shifting fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and she desires to right it.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Has a crush. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 130 pp. Amethyst (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp).

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he is wearing a long, green cloak. His blue crest is long and unkept. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Srorthen lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This slender woman stands about 5'5". She wears a worn and beaten armor. Her top hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. Through the years after Shanairla was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Shanairla's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Shanairla and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: In love. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: She wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a shortbow, but if one is not available she will default to her quarterstaff, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 4'10" when asserting herself. Her purple hair is smooth and relatively long. Her fair skin shows little sign of her aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Rieta hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate her. It was this clingy personality that held back her singing career. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of brigands once and for all.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. She has had some formal singing training, and achieved minor success. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Someone believes her a fraud; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Rock crystal (60 gp).

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 tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise green. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her psionic talents. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Tawar 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 she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 40 pp. Red-brown spinel (120 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 6'0" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He tends to wear a large brown jacket. He has done his best to style his gray fur to look like a famous performer. His copper eyes peer out from beneath his Stetson brown hat.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He is ready at a moment's notice to give into his darker urges. He is a real pyromaniac and does not care who the fire hurts. He often ends up burning people alive in the fires he starts.

History: Born to a Architect, his father struggled to pay the bills. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Cloak grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Cloak. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Optimist, Philantrophist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 380 gp. Solid gold idol (300 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

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 wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. His head has been shaved. He has gray eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Anthony's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. His father was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. He has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Performer. He hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Adventurer, Nature, Has a crush. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: 5'5" and muscular, this eastern woman is generally shirtless and showing off her tattooed chest. Her golden hair is thinning but still full. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tattered old clothes. His red hair is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are black and beady.

Personality: He is mildly Tiefling supremacist, though he does not identify as such. He has all his life been fascinated with painting.

History: He was born in a small desert village. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: Halfling compassion; and a strong sense of loyalty to halfling people

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Racist. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 1800 sp.