Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her eyes are likewise blue. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Animals are drawn to her, and she is able to talk to them.

History: Her martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. When Mella reached her early adolescence her Elf mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Adventurer, Guardian. Occupation: Server

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears dull brown sweaters, loose blue pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed spear, just in case. His cinnamon fur is knotted and matted. His eyes are copper and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull green iron scale mail, marred by sweets. His red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. 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: Gifted from a young age, Varis studied abroad. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, In love, Rich. Occupation: Painter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He carries with him a set of tridents on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise gray.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Wiggens has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Wiggens fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Beggar and was forced into it by his family.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Emotional, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: High pitched, excited

Possessions: 170 gp.

Description: She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants, and she perpetually has her mace ready. Her lavender fur is heavily combed to the left. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep yellow.

Personality: She is a hateful person. She taunts others and blames them for her problems. She is a bit of a macho woman and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. She was an adventurer many years ago and she formed a blood bond with her Half-Orc companion (her 'brother'). Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Cloak fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft green waves gently in the breeze, and a wedding ring on his right hand. His crest is bronze and curly. His eyes are gold.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Born in the north to a Slave Trader, Kriv learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Slave Trader for the past few years.

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

Ideals: Disciplined, Professionalism. Bonds: Rich, In love, Job. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Tiger eye turquoise (9 gp).

Description: A 3'4" southern man, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines violet.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ozyman studied abroad. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Mayor hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Mayor.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1700 sp.

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft pastel waves gently in the breeze. His moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

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 became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 290 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He carries with him a set of scythes on his belt, each one with a emerald on the hilt. His white hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: He is a Maurezhi in disguise. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: Just what you see.