Description: He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has gleaming, smiling silver eyes.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is a great chef.

History: He was born at the edge of vast desert. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted, Logical. Bonds: Nature, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 2300 sp. Jasper (20 gp). Chrysoberyl (50 gp).

Description: He stands about 4'0" and wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with grey colored cloaks and clothing. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. His red hair is unkempt and raggedy. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

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 harsh and unforgiving.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Through the years after Orsik was born, his mother became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Orsik's mother didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He is terrified, and will act out of fear; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with pastel slacks. His blue crest is greasy and uncared for. 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 has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Gifted from a young age, Ildrex studied abroad. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Disease. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 200 gp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (200 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (300 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her yellow robe. She has a very tight haircut. Her hazel 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 used to getting what she wants. In part because she is a meticulous planner.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She got away from her former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and her religion dominates her actions

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: High pitched and raspy

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: 3'0" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. His hair is long and brown with streaks of white, and is pulled back with small red clips. His beard is white, braided, and well cared for. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: Born to a Spice Merchant, his father struggled to pay the bills. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and doesn't want to be a jeweler and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Jamaican accent

Possessions: 20 pp.