Description: He is a pot bellied southern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat. His small hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. A true patriot, Nicholas would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Nicholas lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Nicholas was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Regain custody of his son; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Through the years after Mâku was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Mâku's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and money/treasure

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is wearing a long, black, dusty cloak. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. He wears a broad hat to hide his balding. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He moved out south to avoid the crime he committed. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. She conceals her lance with her veritable burlap sack of a shirt. She has styled her chestnut hair well, parting it to the left. Her eyes are likewise red.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. When triggered she is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Her parents died when she was young, and she was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Rieta grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Rieta. She would ruin relationships and cause injury. She was reprimanded several times before being given her current form and forced to learn humility.

Motivation: She has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Poor. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears a Stetson hat to hide her balding. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: She can speak with the recently deceased. She is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Oolah grew up listening to her father's many stories. At a young age she wooed the heart of her future spouse and the two had a long relationship before they wed. Some 4 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Oolah never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, In love. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 150 gp.