Description: This southern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His clothes are grease stained in places. His red hair is cut short. His gray eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the south, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally.

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Mentor. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: She is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Gifted from a young age, Thodris studied abroad. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Bowyer. She has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bowyer.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job, In love. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He cuts an attractive figure and his suit of old armor is well cared for even if it is obsolete. His white hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. His eyes are likewise green.

Personality: Frederick hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Frederick was born with his mother's beautiful face. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Malachite (9 gp). Alexandrite (700 gp). Aquamarine (700 gp).

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His chestnut hair is cut short. He has violet eyes and a violet hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He is irascible and easily irritated. 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 son.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Antagonistic, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Rich. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Speaks with back of mouth

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: He wears a blue broad hat and blue clothes, and carries kukris. His blonde hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Fearful, Insane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 4000 gp. Pink pearl (110 gp). Sard (70 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.