Description: He is lean but muscular and tends to wear a tan poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His auburn hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. In his 14th year, his parents were killed by a brigands raid, leaving Umpen alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and revenge

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her long black hair reaches down to her waist. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep violet.

Personality: She hates gnolls. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. Her temper goes off on the smallest of things. She tends to lash out at those around her.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Harriet was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She has had some formal writing training, and achieved minor success. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To pay off her debts; and her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Mentor, Debt. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 130 gp. Amber (150 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His black crest is still thick. His gold 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 however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Zedaar was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized green coat. His crest is rusty, silky, and of moderate length. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. A friendly and beautiful Dragonborn, he is rarely seen without a few beauties around his arms. Though a playboy in all rights, he is no lame duck.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 1000 cp. 4 Tanglefoot bags.