Description: She is an attractive woman, lean and moderately muscular. She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her gray eyes.

Personality: She is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Salanop enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy, Hedonist, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 2800 sp. Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Lapis lazuli (8 gp). Sard (60 gp). 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He is renowned for his bright green suits and hats. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Pelaios grew up listening to his mother's many stories. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern.

Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 30 pp.

Description: He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak, and he perpetually has his greataxe ready. His hair is blonde, silky, and of moderate length. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. 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-sister.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Banker arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Banker and was forced into it by his family; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Disciplined. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His hair, while still mostly black, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are likewise gold. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: His martial talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. Her crest is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: The child of a Assassin, who enjoyed hunting, Akra was taken on many hunting expeditions. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Many gnolls want her driven away; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 300 sp. Golden pearl (90 gp).

Description: 6'4" and muscular, this eastern man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His white hair, when down, is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: Purson lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 1100 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair is long and silver with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small brown clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. He has green eyes.

Personality: He is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as he rather likes the sound of his voice. His demeanor is somewhat feminine. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

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 always admired druidic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved.

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 1800 sp.

Description: She wears professional attire. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. She keeps her silver hair in a flapper bob. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with writing. She constantly tries to fill her life with writing. She works hard and plays hard.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east.

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1900 sp.