Description: This tall, slender man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He has moderate length golden hair. His brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Half-Orc culture. 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 son.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He was an adventurer many years ago and he formed a blood bond with his Half-Orc companion (his 'brother'). He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Flaws: Racist, Greedy. Bonds: Family, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is cut close to his head. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: He was born into a rich family. Through the years after Everard was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Everard's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. After a long history of fighting, Everard and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 400 sp. Silver comb with moonstones (300 gp). 1 Chain shirt.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally she wears more armor. She prefers to carry a warhammer, but if one is not available she will default to her pickaxe. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length scarlet crest. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She barks her statements quickly and with little fuss. She prefers small words and is at her heart utilitarian. She has all her life been fascinated with poetry.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 100 sp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (160 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His fur is short and white. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Beast fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Guardian. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. Her actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as she answers to a power that mortal women fail to acknowledge.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions.

Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 20 gp. White pearl (110 gp).

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has violet eyes.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She is always in debt, since she spends her money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: She got into the Mayor business at a young age. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. She now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Job, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with deerstalker hat, marred by chocolates. He keeps his silver hair in a flapper bob. His gray eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a chocolate of some kind. He wears dark leathers with embroidery, marred by chocolates. He wears a small hat to hide his balding. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: He is a Deep Scion in disguise. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 3 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 300 gp. Eye agate (4 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears bulky brown painted plate armor and is in decent physical shape. His brown fur, when down, is lengthy. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Shadow hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

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. After coming to the age of reason, Shadow took it upon himself to study the arcane arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Artistic, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 150 gp. Hematite (13 gp). 1 Banded mail.