Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His red fur has been sun bleached extensively. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is a man who does what he needs to. He will acquiesce to black mail and extortion to avoid trouble. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, River was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. He was granted martial powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 2400 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (300 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1100 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (4000 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (60 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

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 has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. He has blue eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He seeks to pay back kindness whenever he gets the chance. Whether it be in the form of unwanted serenades or the latest gossip he always seeks to do solids for his friends.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. William fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 40000 cp.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He wears black robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a monstrous two handed axe, but if one is not available he will default to his spear. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His gold eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Locksmith. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: Marbas was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Locksmith work with an outfit from a few towns over. Locksmith work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He has achieved small success as a Locksmith.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Addict, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 90 pp. Blue star sapphire (700 gp). 1 Banded mail. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: This western woman wears a black tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her silver hair is drawn into a tight pony tail with a butterfly scrunchie. She wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into her face.

Personality: She is intelligent and cunning, but she will too often allow her rage to get the better of her. She will lose her cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Shax is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her father took her hunting and taught her how to get in the mind of other creatures. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the west; and she's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 gp.