Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy silver hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Balimaar's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. Balimaar is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Balimaar hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His first spouse was a Weaver, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs; and a deep hatred of orcs

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Enemies. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 210 gp. Hematite (15 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is bald on top and has large brown tufts of hair around his ears. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Peter was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and an old rival family wants him found

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Terse. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 40 gp. Chrysoberyl (130 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a green shirt with thin violet vertical stripes and blue pants. His blue hair is lengthy. He has red eyes and a green hat with a violet feather.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Vassago was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Many giants want him driven away; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Gifted, Persistence, Athletic. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her moppish chestnut hair is in a traditional bowl cut. She has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She misses her home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Nogu was born on a far northern forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Beggar. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: Marry her brother to traveling adventurers.

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 1100 sp.