Description: She wears tattered old clothes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. She walks with a slouch but will stand straight to her full 5'2" when asserting herself. Her hair is cut close to her head. Her violet eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: Her father raised her in a mountain cabin. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Volen 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 Volen. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She's attracted to the PC; and wants her loneliness to end

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Nature, Criminal record, Has a crush. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 100 sp. Sard (70 gp). 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: An older man who dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, he is not a threatening figure. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. He has a dull look in his hazel eyes.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Tûmûg lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. 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 was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears professional attire. He wears his silver hair up. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Nicholas hails from a village terrorized by giants. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and a deep hatred of giants

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear red tank tops with blue skirt. She keeps her long white hair kept up in a rat tail. Her amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Paela was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. In the meantime she has taken over work as a Spy and occasionally as a mercenary.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Half-Elven artifacts is her passion; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 130 gp.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He is portly but not overly obese. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Rolf lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Rolf was born on a far eastern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Locksmith. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. She wears a small hat to cover her moderate length blonde hair. She wears a mask on her face.

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 does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for her. She lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her mother. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: She has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting, Gifted. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 380 gp.

Description: She prefers to wear flannel. Her red hair is wavy and long. Her gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 5000 cp. Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (110 gp).

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears an entirely brown suit with white socks and a vest with buckled shoes. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her tied-back hair is red. Her half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She is an amazing painter.

History: Eleanor was born the youngest of three triplets. She always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted arcane powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: Marry her sister to traveling adventurers; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 100 gp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Hematite (15 gp). Rose (20 gp).

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His hair is auburn and very short. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Theriatis lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the desert to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the desert due to the painful memories there. Theriatis took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up bastard sword and armor he uses now. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Guardian, Attractive, Family, Nature. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: 1000 cp. 1 Everburning torch.