Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier. His white hair is braided into rings. His violet eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered painting. He has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 900 sp. Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (30 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this eastern guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature halberd.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Gifted, Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 1000 sp.

Description: This man stands a little under 5'4" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering his clean studded leather. He sports a long golden beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

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. A true patriot, Halimath would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Halimath was born in the east. At a young age he loved to build and create. A freak accident while working with his Actor mother left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Optimist, Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears silk and lounges about seductively. She wears her red hair down. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She considers herself the perfect lady. She makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Abalaba was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way west. Due to her spouse's obsession with being a Crown-heir they were divorced and she won custody of their daughter. She worked as a Slave Trader, and she later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for her; and she doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family, Mentor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. She has a long black ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her skin is flawless and her amber eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She works hard and plays hard.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mardred grew up listening to her father's many stories. Her first spouse was a Healer, they had one daughter, but her spouse won total custody. Without her spouse to temper her she grew out of control. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Expand her business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 600 sp. Carnelian (70 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She has a large white mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her violet robe. Her blonde hair has been sun bleached extensively. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She has always had a great fascination with Tiefling culture. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Roofer. Unlike her family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, she wanted to work in the city. She has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: To end her boredom; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Athletic, Joker. Flaws: Racist, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Black pearl (200 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His white hair is greasy and uncared for. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: Born to a Navigator, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 380 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He tends to wear a large green jacket. His crest is rusty and very short. He has red eyes and a green hat with a brown feather.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Maagog was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Maagog decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Some 6 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Maagog never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and he possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal

Ideals: Opinionated, Gifted. Bonds: Criminal record, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears bulky tan painted plate armor, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His silver hair and beard is wavy and long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his 12th 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Fearful. Bonds: In love, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: Just what you see.