Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. He has a very tight haircut. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He hates giants. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage son.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Carpenter arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. 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: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive, Enemies, Family, Rich. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. He carries a battered monstrous two handed axe and tarnished spear as well. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. More though he will beg to come along on any journeys. He will attempt to stowaway on any ship he can in the hopes that it will get him further away.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Solomon grew up listening to his father's many stories. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A woman with a warm, jovial air about her, she wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. She usually doesn't wear a shirt. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. She has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born in the south. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to goblins demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: A deep hatred of goblins; and she is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Addict, Lazy. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an average looking western male in his early mid-life. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a blue coat. His moppish silver hair is in a traditional bowl cut. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield. 1 Masterwork Heavy steel shield. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears many layers of old clothing at all times. His dark red hair is heavily combed to the right. His black eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation he is generally quite perceptive. He notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Forcas hails from a village terrorized by giants. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and many giants want him driven away

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Holy water. 2 Antitoxin.