Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He has moderate length silver hair. His half smiles and amber eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. Eberk enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: Eberk was born with his father's beautiful face. In his 15th 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 bought a shortbow and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he feels threatened by others

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Hedonist, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his scimitar with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt, and is pretty ugly. He keeps his long chestnut hair kept up in a rat tail. His blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A serious injury left his father unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm father. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Debt. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: She dresses in red turtlenecks beneath a black coat with brown slacks. She carries with her a set of whips on her belt, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. Her blonde hair is lengthy. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. She also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. The war was a terrible time for her, and Marigold does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She was granted psionic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 400 sp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This southern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His clothes are grease stained in places. His crest is green and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: When he was but 7 years old his parents immigrated from the south. A few years later when the north was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Chain shirt.