Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with tan lining and desert motifs. With bright brown hair and a scraggly beard. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: Gimble hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many dire rats want him driven away.

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Religious. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 300 sp. Chrysoprase (40 gp).

Description: 5'4" and muscular, this eastern man is wearing a tight green one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. His purple hair is thinning but still full. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: When he was but 5 years old his parents immigrated from the east. His first spouse was a Dilettante, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and to protect his home

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Family, Immigrant. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 70 gp. 1 Breastplate.

Description: He tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt, and he perpetually has his scythe ready. He wears his red crest down. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines red.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: A child with a great deal of music talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered music. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Shy. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 600 gp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He wears a brown costume with the symbols of luck on his torso. He has a hunchback. His head has been shaved. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He is greedy; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1000 cp.

Description: She wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants, and carries bows. Her hair is red and curly. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before her hampering stammer kicks in. A true patriot, Juliana would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and she wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Shy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 30 gp. 1 Masterwork manacles.