Description: He prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. He carries his fan with him everywhere and carries himself as the perfect gentleman. He carries with him a set of falchions on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His golden hair is knotted and matted. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the north.

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 340 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman usually wears her yellow robe and has her crossbow always slung over her shoulder, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest sister, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Elves became a terror of the countryside. She was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: She wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: In love, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 sp. Onyx (60 gp).

Description: This northern woman has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports a flattop hair cut. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of northern immigrants she idolized her father. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Butcher hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is content

Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 sp. 1 Everburning torch.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, he wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He has a dull look in his blue eyes.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 18. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Aelar was born the youngest of three triplets. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Family, Slave. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 120 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (70 gp).

Description: Her skin is bronze and flawless. She wears long strands of amber and short tan dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She is an epitome of beauty. She has a long blonde ponytail with little hanging trinkets. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. She also has developed a complete distrust of the Miller profession.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. A gifted student she started as a Miller, but she got bored and became a Actor. She has achieved small success as a Actor.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Job, Religious. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 40 gp. 4 Thunderstones.

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. He wears his black hair down. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. 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 taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Opinionated, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She is wearing colorful clothing, dressed as a Mayor. Her red hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her blue eyes.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She is a bit of a xeno-phobe, disliking non-Half-Orcs.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Her family was turned out during the war. She and her family wandered east to less war torn lands. She found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, she put together a working one.

Motivation: A strong sense of loyalty to Gnomish people; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Emotional, Racist, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This tall, slender man wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. His brass crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep red.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

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. Like his father and his brother before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Healer. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Healer.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: She is of a modest build and height, but she carries herself more imposing than she is. She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. She keeps her green crest in a flapper bob. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. A true patriot, Aasathra would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Aasathra lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Aasathra has worked very hard to control her curse. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Insomniac, Addict, Disease. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: Coral (130 gp).