Description: 3'1" and muscular, this eastern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes are violet.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. While he appears to be a normal Halfling, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: To clean up the streets; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Athletic, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Insane. Bonds: Guardian. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 140 gp.

Description: She wears a tattered pair of loose violet pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. She carries a battered greataxe and tarnished quarterstaff as well. She wears her black hair up. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She has a small toy that she constantly fidgets with.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her mother was legitimate. She's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and she is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Cynical, Addict. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: She has a missing left arm. She wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. She wears her auburn hair up. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep blue.

Personality: She can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing singing.

History: Gifted from a young age, Mara studied abroad. Her parents enrolled her in a Warrior school at a young age so that she could practice her martial talents. She was granted martial powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic, Fighting. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 10 pp. A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he wears a simple white robe with brown stripes complete with hood. His red hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born at the edge of vast plains. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Chay was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants revenge against brigands; and many brigands want him driven away

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Enemies, Nature, Military. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 150 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. A true patriot, Aelar would do anything for his country. He is fiercely protective of his fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Aelar was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact; and he is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Military, Immigrant. Occupation: Sellsword

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 700 sp.