Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he wears a white vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His pastel leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his white boots flare out at the collars. He has no hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 30 pp. Red-brown spinel (80 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He is an epitome of beauty. His brown hair is lengthy. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

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 able to fit into much smaller and tighter spaces than normal.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Persistence, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 250 gp.

Description: A 5'0" northern woman, she prefers to wear tan clothing when she does not wear armor. She is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around her ears. Her eyes are likewise gray. Her teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. She also is a firm believer in the womanly ideal.

History: Her arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, her parents had her trained. She took every job she could get her hands on, but the opportunities for Elves in the north were limited. She was granted arcane powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and to prove her worth to the world

Ideals: Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a pickaxe, but if one is not available he will default to his glaive. His blonde hair is cut short. His eyes are likewise blue.

Personality: He likes to fabricate stories about his past exploits and how crazy he is, but in actuality he is rather bland. 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, Az-Rans is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: He is content.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1200 sp. Bloodstone (40 gp). Violet garnet (300 gp).

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears professional attire. He sports a flattop crest cut. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His childhood dream was to be a Architect, but he was a colossal failure. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 110 gp.