Description: This man wears a worn and beaten armor, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His hair is white and curly. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He invites people to come help in his community garden.

History: Paymon was born the youngest of three triplets. His first spouse was a Scribe, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: A deep hatred of orcs; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Philantrophist. Bonds: Enemies, Family, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 30 pp. Red spinel (120 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep green leather and dull red iron scale mail. His hair is brown and curly. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He will rave to anyone who will listen. He is able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: Tourmaline (140 gp). 1 Everburning torch.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears professional attire, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her hair is red and curly. This brown eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. A freak accident while working with her Crown-heir father left her crippled. In her journeys she found a malevolent artifact. She wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Elven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 110 gp.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He wears his blue crest down. His red eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

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. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Arjhan is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He feels threatened by others; and he wants revenge against brigands

Ideals: Persistence, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Mentor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 200 sp.