Description: 5'8" and muscular, this southern man wears dark leathers with embroidery. He wears a colorful flower in his brown hair. His black eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, he prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for his hunting needs. His hair is cut close to his head. His white eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

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 has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He spent several years traveling with his friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he's looking for his big break

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Musical instrument. 1 Simple lock. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'3". She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. Her head has been shaved. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Nora grew up listening to her mother's many stories. A gypsy cursed her at a young age, leading to her ugly appearance. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Disciplined, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 280 gp.

Description: She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and carries monstrous two handed axes. Her long white crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is quiet and unassuming. She ignores others and carries on with her job unassumingly. She is often prim and proper but will on occasion tell either really disgusting or offensive jokes, which seem out of character.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father 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 achieved small success as a Assassin.

Motivation: She is greedy; and expand her business

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Rich. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 600 sp. Solid gold idol (400 gp). 1 Half-Plate.

Description: With blue face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His auburn hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His eyes are blue.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Like his father and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Blacksmith. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Blacksmith for hire.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he has a crush on the local engraver

Ideals: Professionalism, Artistic. Bonds: Enemies, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 400 sp. Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp).