Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries with him a set of flails on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His hair is silver and curly. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Zephan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. 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 daughter.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and to reunite with his absent mother

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Banded mail.

Description: 5'9" and muscular, this southern woman tends to wear a large black jacket. She sports a flattop hair cut. She has red eyes and a black hat with a pastel feather.

Personality: She swings through moods quickly. One moment she is cool and collected, the next she is carried away by passions. She is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: She was born on a small isolated farm. Being born in the south, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the south for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way east. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Nature, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman is wearing a long, black cloak, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her brown hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. She is missing an eye and her face is severely sunburned. Her one remaining eye shines brown.

Personality: She is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

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. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and she desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 170 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his shield with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He is cautious and jumpy. He reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father 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 has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Healer.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Flaws: Insane, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He is in excellent shape and is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright green and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. His blue hair is matted, messy, and big. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He considers himself the perfect gentleman. He makes a point to always show proper etiquette and frequently critiques the etiquette of others. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: Gifted from a young age, Melech studied abroad. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Tieflings became a terror of the countryside. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Has a crush. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Alchemist’s fire.