Description: He is a husky man, who wears yellow robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a glaive, but if one is not available he will default to his nunchaku. He has wavy red hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He does not care much for physical appearances, nor does he care much for other people. He does however care about what he wants and getting it. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 6000 cp. Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: He is a mite stocky and is typically in his Sailor uniform. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A freak accident while working with his Mayor father left him crippled. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: This western man wears a robe, a symbol of luck around his neck, and a axe on his belt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are likewise red.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 4'3" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She sports grey clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. She keeps her red hair in a flapper bob. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Merchant arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. She was an apprentice working in her mother's forge. She struck the Merchant job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She is typically in her Priest uniform. Her black fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a dagger scrunchie. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. She has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a woman enough she will sell her own mother. Money is her most trusted friend.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. While studying, she fell in love. They married and had a daughter. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich, In love. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 4 Thunderstones.

Description: This woman is very fat, and has a large tan mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. She wears her hair in dreadlocks. Her eyes are brown.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes giants are coming to abduct people. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with her Baker father left her crippled. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to giants demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 10000 cp.

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 blonde hair is still thick. Her hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. She does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Jarana hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. 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 has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats; and many dire rats want her driven away

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Justice. Bonds: Enemies, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His hair is short and silver. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. 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: Karash lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the east were limited. 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. Karash fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Layabout and was forced into it by his family; and regain custody of his son

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her black crest has been sun bleached extensively. Her gold eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She worked as a nervous Healer and found it very stressful. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Healer for the past few years.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is her passion

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Everburning torch.