Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His skin is flawless and his black eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He uses divination through singing.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Balam fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Poor. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 100 gp. Coral (110 gp).

Description: A middle-aged man, he tends to wear a large violet jacket, and is pretty ugly. With a patchy silver beard and wild silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant blue.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Priest. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He worked as a nervous Priest and found it very stressful. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 130 pp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, and he perpetually has his axe ready. His head has been shaved. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Opinionated, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 160 gp. 8 Acid flasks.

Description: This late middle aged man 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 and is in decent physical shape. His hair is red and very short. He has a dull look in his brown eyes.

Personality: He is a Adventurer first and foremost. He believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. He is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with his old comrades. He has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the south. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Bonds: Adventurer, Job, Immigrant, Family, Guardian. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 2000 cp. Silver pearl (90 gp).

Description: This younger middle-aged woman prefers to wear flannel, and a wedding ring on her left hand. Her hair, while still mostly chestnut, has prominent grey streaks. This black eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. As of late she has set up a hidden staging nest where she ambushes people she hires for escort.

Motivation: She is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: In love, Criminal record, Mentor. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: A roughly beaten golden orb (60 gp).