Description: This eastern man is dressed in earthy colors with a pastel and yellow handkerchief worn on his left side. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Kody was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His mother took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Recently a tribe of giants attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Kody fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (500 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (170 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he is dressed in earthy colors with a black and brown handkerchief worn on his right side. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

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. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother.

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: An older woman who wears a white cloak and cross-gartered blue stockings, she is not a threatening figure. She has dyed her greying black hair a little too much giving a sharp black color. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Adelaide hails from a village terrorized by orcs. Her mother disappeared, and while she tried to raise money to find her mother, she was betrayed dozens of times. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: She is terrified, and will act out of fear; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Family, Enemies, Rich. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a black coat. His auburn hair is cut short. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. Balimaar enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Balimaar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Balimaar has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Cynical, Hedonist, Disease. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 6000 sp.