Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a white cloak and cross-gartered tan stockings. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. His mother was very strict, and drilled into him lessons on being the perfect gentleman. After a long history of fighting, Howard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and nothing but the best is good enough for him

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 9000 cp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man has a large red mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into his green robe, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a Performer, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his 11th year, his parents were killed by a giants raid, leaving Curran alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: In love, Job, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing pastel cape and mantle trimmed with soft red waves gently in the breeze. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His gray fur is singed and shortened. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and money/treasure

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. She wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her rusty crest is greasy and uncared for. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines gold.

Personality: She is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. She is an amazing painter.

History: Her necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries with him a set of sais, each one with a jet on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. He has shaved his head bald. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks his mind. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Silver comb with moonstones (500 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A stocky lighter skinned man, he wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. His fierce hazel eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Gnomish culture. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: Born in the south to a Barber, Thoradin learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Barber. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and a strong sense of loyalty to gnomish people

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Small steel mirror. 1 Masterwork Artisan’s tools. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: He stands about 6'3" and is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Courier. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length gold crest. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He hates Dragonborns with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Cold and demanding tone

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. Her moppish black hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: Gifted from a young age, Katherine studied abroad. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 has never given up on her painting dream.

Motivation: She is content; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 350 gp.

Description: She wears a blue cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and pickaxes. Her chestnut hair is braided into rings. Her gray eyes peer out from beneath her feathered blue hat.

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. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and doesn't want to be a doctor and was forced into it by her family

Ideals: Persistence, Gifted, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 5000 cp.