Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. Her silver hair is still thick. Her amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. 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 Mayor. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: Expand her business; and to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He wears a top hat to cover his moderate length chestnut hair. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Quarion hails from a village terrorized by illithids. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his arcane talents. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp. Malachite (8 gp). Golden pearl (90 gp). Tourmaline (90 gp).

Description: This woman wears green trousers with black and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She is muscular with a powerful set of arms. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She would rather hide behind her crafts than deal with other people.

History: A powerful wizard made her what she is. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Shax grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Shax. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: A rival would like her out of the picture; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Mentor, Criminal record. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is in excellent shape and wears long strands of emerald and short white dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her chestnut hair is heavily combed to the right. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady hazel eyes.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is greedy

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: This malnourished woman wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She wears a feathered hat to cover her moderate length purple hair. Her black eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She has dedicated herself to building a better village for her children.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: This man is very fat, and usually wears his brown robe and has his axe always slung over his shoulder. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His fierce brown eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Before the accident, he was one of the most outspoken anti-Half-Elven activists. He was mortally wounded, saved by a kind and fast-acting Half-Elven doctor. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Half-Elven people.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Racist. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane, and carries shields. His hair is always cut to a buzz. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a Actor first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: The child of a Sellsword, who enjoyed hunting, Borun was taken on many hunting expeditions. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Bonds: Poor, Job, In love, Nature. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 300 gp. Moss agate (13 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her crest is blue and very short. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She exudes charisma. She is a tour de force of persuasion. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Eggren was born with her father's beautiful face. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is content

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Logical. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her moppish auburn hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. Jasmine enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. 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: She's repulsed by the PC; and she seems to be bored by most things

Flaws: Antagonistic, Hedonist, Mundane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 20 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (130 gp).