Description: This man is tall and muscular. He has a large grey mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his yellow robe. He has done his best to style his red hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: With pastel face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her fur is white and curly. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She bought a crossbow and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Religious. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 210 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (80 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp).

Description: He prefers to wear flannel. He carries a battered quarterstaff and tarnished ceremonial dagger as well. His hair is chestnut and very short. He has violet eyes and a white hat with a red feather.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. 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: Bertram was born the youngest of three triplets. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears a grey tunic with white highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He sports a long white beard, and similarly colored long hair. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush.

Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Mundane, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Mentor. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 5000 cp.

Description: He is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. A friendly and beautiful Gnome, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: Anverth was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He has achieved small success as a Mayor.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Philantrophist, Persistence. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She is lean but muscular and is dressed in earthy colors with a yellow and blue handkerchief worn on her left side. Her hair is cut close to her head. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with her opinion, she thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, she can get violently argumentative. She is stubborn though. She always likes to keep a trick up her sleeve. She likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if she feels she even has a chance of losing.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is greedy; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1 Simple lock.

Description: She tends to wear a large black jacket, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 6'5" when asserting herself. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her black eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Shax will drive conversation. She is fiercely devoted to her father, and views her father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. She inherited a moderately successful company from her father. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her old friends

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Family, Military, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Her right side is far more bruised and cut up than her other. She wears a brown Stetson hat and brown clothes. With bright white hair. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are amber.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. She haggles over everything, upselling her goods and buying cheap. She is persistent in everything.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. 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 used her abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Athletic, Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 18000 cp. Chrysoprase (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of magic around his neck, and a whip on his belt. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. He keeps his long silver hair kept up in a rat tail. He is baby faced.

Personality: He exudes charisma. He is a tour de force of persuasion. He pushes his goals aggressively. He is also a coward if confronted.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He was forced to fight in gladiatorial arenas alongside his partner. They became the best of friends and one day they managed to break out together and then went their separate ways.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 150 gp.