Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He prefers to wear flannel. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. In his 12th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he feels threatened by others

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Job, Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Black pearl (800 gp). Onyx (70 gp). Alexandrite (800 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His fierce gray eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. Geoffrey was born on a far western island where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Carpenter. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: A deep hatred of giants; and many giants want him driven away

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a tight fitting brown shirt and pants. He has a very tight haircut. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Manfred enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered west to less war torn lands. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: Her left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise she appears quite healthy. She typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep white leather and dull brown iron scale mail. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: This woman loves singing and to teach people singing more than just about anything. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Born to a Sage, her mother struggled to pay the bills. A gifted student she started as a Sage, but she got bored and became a Guard. She ran away from her former home and has been making her living as a Guard for the past few years.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge; and she'd like to take her coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 60 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.