Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft tan waves gently in the breeze. His crest is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are gold and beady.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his painting with anyone who is interested.

History: He comes from a rich southern family. His first spouse was a Body Guard, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears bulky green painted plate armor. His black hair is singed and shortened. His eyes are white and beady.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His family was turned out during the war. He and his family wandered north to less war torn lands. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: To end his boredom; and he seems to be bored by most things

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, PTSD. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Creaky witch voice

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is light but she possesses many black ritualistic tattoos. She wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized grey coat. Her brown hair is long and unkept. She has a dull look in her gray eyes.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Elysande isn't afraid of most anything. She has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Human unity. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Bowyer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to reunite with her absent mother

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: The light-skinned man stands 5'6" and wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a spear, but if one is not available he will default to his shortspear. His silver hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 30 pp. Obsidian (14 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He has no hair. His green eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Through the years after Thorin was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Thorin's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 800 sp.