Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has a crush on the local beggar

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Nature. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 2000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is lean but muscular and dresses in pastel turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with white slacks. Her fur, while still mostly cinnamon, has prominent grey streaks. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She will rave to anyone who will listen. She is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: She was born into a rich family. In her 12th year, her parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Seven alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and revenge

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Guardian. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears just a red suit, and carries axes. With a patchy blonde beard and wild blonde hair. His green eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Fulbar is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. 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. Fulbar fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Depressed, Hedonist, Disease. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40 pp. Chrysoberyl (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, he wears green robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a greataxe, but if one is not available he will default to his longbow. His green crest, when down, is lengthy. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: Hirrathak was raised in a hard working conservative environment. In his 19th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Unemployed for hire.

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

Flaws: Insomniac, Fearful. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is dressed in an above average manner. With bright brown hair. Her eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes drow are coming to abduct people. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Seamstress arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. In her 18th year, her parents were killed by a drow raid, leaving Quilla alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, she was adopted. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She is greedy; and someone believes her a fraud

Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Enemies, Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 5000 cp. Malachite (15 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his halberd with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He wears his black hair down. His ears are large.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Guard, his father struggled to pay the bills. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Gnomes in the east were limited. He has never given up on his writing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This northern woman is abnormally tall. She wears bulky black painted plate armor. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: Born in the north to a Healer, Synthrin learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fisher. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: Balancing her hectic life and new Healer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Joker. Bonds: Immigrant, Has a crush, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: This late middle aged woman wears baggy violet pantaloons and a black scarf and is in decent physical shape. Her black hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are likewise hazel.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She comes from a rich northern family. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She is searching for what she claims is her rightful reward.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to unite with her brother

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 130 gp. Iolite (70 gp).

Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. She has moderate length black hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Mardred was born with her mother's beautiful face. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insomniac, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Jet (160 gp).