Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his sickle with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. He has several tiny jet earrings on each ear.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Bertram embodies much of what other species detest in the Humans. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Mason arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. During his travels, Bertram and his party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Bertram discovered the rest of his party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Bertram fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing his own horrible transformation.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he desires power and/or immortality

Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 150 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'1". He is typically in his Map Maker uniform. His scarlet crest is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He takes his job very seriously, in part because he fears he cannot get a new one. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Born to a Tanner, his mother struggled to pay the bills. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To be a Tanner again; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: He is a husky man, who wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His silver hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Born in the south to a Herbalist, Lucan learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 north. He has achieved small success as a Herbalist.

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 marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Family, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 300 gp. Rock crystal (70 gp). Freshwater pearl (10 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His golden hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

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. After coming to the age of reason, Nazû took it upon himself to study the martial arts in their entirety; because of this, he was labeled a dark omen and banished from his homeland. He used his abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 3000 gp. Black opal (500 gp). Black star sapphire (500 gp). Banded agate (15 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Moss agate (15 gp). Pink pearl (160 gp). Obsidian (15 gp).