Description: Standing 6'1", this man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shortbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His auburn hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. Recently a tribe of goblins attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Ar-Karo 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; and to prove his worth to the world

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light brown in addition to tight pants. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His hair is brown and very short. He is baby faced.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in the west to a Beggar, Vondal learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. After coming to the age of reason, Vondal took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and money/treasure

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Job, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 800 sp. Moonstone (60 gp).

Description: She appears as an extremely gaunt Gnome, and stands approximately 3'5". She wears suspenders and tan workpants. Her shirt is brown, and she wears a heavy tan leather apron most of the time, and her gloved hand is found clutching a sickle. Her auburn hair is greasy and uncared for. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. 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 at the edge of vast plains. There was a wharf not far from home where she often wandered off to fish. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To unite with her sister.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Religious, Nature, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears her chestnut hair down. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: Nella is a sociable creature first and foremost. She loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. She can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. She will do just about anything if she becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this she is easily convinced.

History: She was raised in a plains tribe. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Has a crush, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: An older woman who wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, she is not a threatening figure. Her brown hair is long and unkept. She has blue eyes and a grey hat with a blue feather.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Born in the east her family was never financially stable. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 4000 cp. Smoky quartz (20 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned man, he tends to wear a blue poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

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 is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Addict, Selfish, Mundane. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. Her brief stint in the army gave her the idea she was invincible and that she is the toughest woman alive.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. When Melissa reached her early adolescence her Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane, Depressed, Ugly. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks in third person

Possessions: 140 gp. 1 Silver holy symbol.

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.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Halflings became a terror of the countryside. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 16000 sp.