Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His dark red hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: Gifted from a young age, Raam studied abroad. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Animal Trainer. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Animal Trainer for the past few years.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 80000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp).

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Her black crest is braided into rings. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She misses her glory days as an athlete. She does not mind her job, but it is boring in comparison. She is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes her no end of embarrassment.

History: She was born in the west, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. In her 13th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her mother impaled in their home, and her father beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and she is terrified, and will act out of fear

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Forgetful, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: He wears an entirely black suit with brown socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His bronze crest is lengthy. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 east. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and to pay off his debts

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Family, Adventurer, Debt. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 14000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man wears a green armored body suit, with a simple brown line shooting up and back down. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized aquamarine on his right hand. He has dyed his greying white crest a little too much giving a sharp white color. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gold.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. His home and work are filled with various knick knacks he has acquired through the years. He cares a great deal for his adopted teenage daughter.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He was granted arcane powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 2000 gp. 1 Medium magic item.