Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a simple green robe with red stripes complete with hood, and is pretty ugly. His dark red hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Barakas lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Spice Merchant hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Nature, Family, Poor. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 3100 sp.

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 green crest is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

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 a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. His homeland was ravaged by war and he spent much of his life rebuilding it. 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: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Persistence, Logical. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 10 pp.

Description: He wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. He worked as a nervous Interpreter and found it very stressful. He has achieved small success as a Interpreter.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (90 gp).

Description: Her skin has the orange glow of too much sun. She is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. She has red hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Ostracized due to the arcane powers of her oldest brother, she and her siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. Some 6 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Vola never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: Wants her loneliness to end; and she seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Has a crush. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 150 gp. Jasper (40 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears light armors faded through time and improper care. She keeps her long yellow fur kept up in a rat tail. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Eccentric and domineering, Spring will drive conversation. To her fellows she 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: Spring hails from a village terrorized by gnolls. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Revenge; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: Just what you see.