Description: With red face paint in a stripe pattern across her face, she is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her white hair is braided into rings. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

Personality: Here is a woman who knows she is the smartest in the room. She talks down to others constantly. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. She became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable.

Ideals: Impeccable, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 70 gp.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his black robe. His cinnamon fur is singed and shortened. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. His fur is red and very short. He has green eyes.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. 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: Born in the east to a Body Guard, Aura learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Gnomish artifacts is his passion; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Athletic, Opinionated, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 180 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy auburn stubble. He wears a tattered pair of loose red pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has a hunchback. His hair, while still mostly auburn, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are green and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. A gifted student he started as a Fortune-teller, but he got bored and became a Marshal. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Marshal.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Job. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 10000 cp.

Description: She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. She cuts an attractive figure and her suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. She has a long brown ponytail with little hanging trinkets. She has several tiny aquamarine earrings on each ear.

Personality: She acts crazy and hedonistic. She is used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. 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: She uses money and sex appeal to get what she needs.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty violet coat over it. He carries with him a set of quarterstaffs, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has done his best to style his chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Conrad grew up listening to his mother's many stories. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He has dedicated himself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries a battered dagger and tarnished morningstar as well. He wears his rusty crest down. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He found a children's book about a Dragonborn Sorcerer who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. During his travels, Nithther and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Nithther discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Nithther fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

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

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Dwarf, and stands approximately 3'10". She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sword. With wild white hair. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is happy with her job as a Scribe. She turns her eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. She is an amazing painter.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Some 2 years later her spouse died after the birth of her son. Heartbroken, Thodris never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her son whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, In love. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: 6'4" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He has purple hair. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: Therai was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He married young, but lost his spouse to gnolls. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it; and expand his business

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1500 sp.