Description: She wears a shirt that is too small, which lets her gut show, with a ratty tan coat over it. She carries a battered rapier and tarnished hammer as well. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length black hair. She has a dull look in her hazel eyes.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Like her mother and her brother before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Shoemaker. She tends to her Shoemaker job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Religious. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 800 gp.

Description: She likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. She carries with her a set of nunchakus on her belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. Her long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. Her eyes are blue.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. As long as the job gets done she does not care how it got done.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Adelaide 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 Adelaide. She left for the west, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She has decided she is irredeemable; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Professionalism. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering his clean studded leather, and is pretty ugly. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: He got into the Bookbinder business at a young age. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bookbinder.

Motivation: Wants to open a new tavern; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'3". He wears bulky yellow painted plate armor. His hair is long and blonde with streaks of golden, and is pulled back with small yellow clips. His beard is golden, braided, and well cared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gray eyes.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. When Ralf reached his early adolescence his Human father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Logical, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Military. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 1000 sp. 1 Full Plate. 1 Breastplate.