Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he likes to wear darkened spectacles and heavy clothing, no matter the weather. He wears a feathered hat to hide his balding. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He found a children's book about a Tiefling Expert who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 800 pp. Moss agate (7 gp). Peridot (80 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). Rock crystal (80 gp). Zircon (80 gp).

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. He prefers to wear black pants and tee shirts. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Norûk lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the north, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the north for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Joker, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Slave, Family. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 10000 sp. Malachite (6 gp).

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right hand, she wears tan trousers with blue and black striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. She has done her best to style her brown hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is a Soapmaker first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She always admired necromantic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying sister.

Motivation: She'd like to take her coworkers down a peg.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: German accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. Her hair is always cut to a buzz. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. She is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with her big mouthed big gutted partner. Her partner is her best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. She is fiercely devoted to her mother, and views her mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating her from her legal half-brother.

History: She was raised in a mountains tribe. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and a rival would like her out of the picture

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Nature, Criminal record. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 800 sp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). 1 Banded mail.