Description: He wears a black cloak and cross-gartered white stockings. His brown hair is braided into rings. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. Balam was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Balam decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He tends to his Bounty Hunter job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 150 pp. Black pearl (1100 gp). Carnelian (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers her face most of the time. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her golden hair is lengthy. She wears a mask on her face.

Personality: Prone to second guessing herself, she comes off as nervous. She invites people to come help in her community garden.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has became unsatisfied with her lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: She feels that her past leaves her morally obligated to help; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 1900 sp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: An older man who does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it, he is not a threatening figure. His brown hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He is baby faced.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Butcher but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. Anselm liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has achieved small success as a Butcher.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is greedy

Ideals: Passionate, Pacifist. Bonds: Nature, Job, Rich. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a yellow coat with pastel slacks. She carries a battered pickaxe and tarnished sword as well. Her hair is chestnut and very short. Her brown eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Agatha embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. She uses divination through singing.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. In her youth she was a Layabout, and wanted to be a champion fighter when she grew up. She was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives she lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. She saw the brutality and swore off her fighting aspirations, taking her younger sister on her back after seeing her parents die, and fled the country. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and she is greedy

Ideals: Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 900 gp.