Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His white crest is greasy and uncared for. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Seamstress hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. Days after completing his studies, news broke out that his hometown was attacked by giants. Norkruuth was horrified and prayed that his mother was alright. However, he heard that his mother had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Depressed, Shy. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 130 gp. Onyx (40 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He tends to his Slave Trader job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Religious, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

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

Possessions: 90 gp. Red spinel (40 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her silver hair is braided into rings. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines green.

Personality: She is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. She is very protective of her business, her home, and her spouse. She is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: She got into the Shoemaker business at a young age. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and wishes to resurrect an old love

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 5 Acid flasks.

Description: She is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright red and blue, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. She carries with her a set of daggers, each one with a topaz on the hilt. She only wears one on her belt and the other on her back. She keeps her long golden hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are violet.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. She moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep her interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. 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. Anne fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism, Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: She wears a yellow costume with the symbols of her god on her torso. She carries with her a set of clubs on her belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. She has a very tight haircut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She does not care much for physical appearances, nor does she care much for other people. She does however care about what she wants and getting it. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Valanthe was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He wears his blonde hair down. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are violet.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: She wears a black cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. She carries a battered sai and tarnished hand crossbow as well. Her dark red hair is braided into rings. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. 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 Sailor. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: He likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He has wavy white hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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. 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 raised in a white middle class family as the only child. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

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 is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He found a children's book about a Dwarf Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and obtaining odd cultural dragonborn artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 140 gp. Rhodochrosite (16 gp).