Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Humans. His skin is dark but he possesses many red ritualistic tattoos. He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His red hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a dull look in his violet eyes.

Personality: He is irritable and easily angered. He is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use his stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: When he was but 3 years old his parents immigrated from the west. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and his religion dominates his actions

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant, Religious. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1000 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (1100 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His golden hair is unkempt and raggedy. His gray eyes peer out from beneath his feathered black hat.

Personality: He is a very philanthropic person; he spends his free time working at various soup kitchens. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. Manfred was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Manfred decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Military. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears a simple violet robe with tan stripes complete with hood. She is portly but not overly obese. She wears her black hair up in a very large beehive style do. Her eyes are a pleasant green.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Katherine is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Katherine hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. She was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. She never won. She has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to gnolls.

Motivation: She is greedy; and a deep hatred of gnolls

Ideals: Justice, Athletic. Bonds: Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized brown coat. She carries a battered longsword and tarnished hand crossbow as well. Her white hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her eyes are blue and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She loves teas. She is very sensitive about her face. To blow off anger she lifts weights and to control her otherwise explosive temper she works out a lot.

History: Born in the west her family was never financially stable. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Stylist hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 20000 cp.