Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with white colored cloaks and clothing. His blonde hair is long and unkept. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. He took every job he could get his hands on, but the opportunities for Half-Orcs in the east were limited. He 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; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 1000 cp. Coral (90 gp). 3 Antitoxin.

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a green coat over a yellow low-cut shirt, and a deerstalker hat upon her head. She wears her silver crest down. Her eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. 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: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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 Carpenter. She became a Carpenter soon after.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Fisher. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Fisher.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic, Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Job. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. He has done his best to style his brown hair to look like a famous performer. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He comes from a rich eastern family. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his son. Heartbroken, Calcitro never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his son whom he trained as his mother had trained him before.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, In love, Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 280 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (80 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).

Description: This tall, slender man wears just a black suit. His black hair is long and unkept. He has a dull look in his black eyes.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Xappan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: A child with a great deal of singing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Ostracized due to the divine powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: To protect his home; and he is greedy

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her greataxe with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She wears her blonde hair down. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ella studied abroad. Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: Her religion dominates her actions; and doesn't want to be a shepherd and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man likes to wear black tank tops with brown pants. His blue crest is singed and shortened. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Mugrunden's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Mugrunden grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He came across an abandoned tomb where he found a relic that called out to him. After picking it up he was cursed by vampirism.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. She is well dressed, constantly wearing a black suit, grey shirt, and white tie. She has a hunchback. She keeps her long auburn hair kept up in a rat tail. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: Tagga hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. She is very muscular particularly in the legs. She does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when she can avoid it. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She thrives on attention. She does whatever is in her power to gain the attention of whomever she deems a fit date. She has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. At a young age both her parents were killed in an accident. Her uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took her in and had her trained in basic self defense. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 40 gp.