Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'3" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. His golden hair is knotted and matted. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears suspenders and blue workpants. His shirt is pastel, and he wears a heavy blue leather apron most of the time. He carries with him a set of axes on his belt, each one with a topaz on the hilt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His gray eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. 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: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Fighting, Logical. Bonds: Guardian, Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (5000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (170 gp).

Description: This woman is very fat, and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her white hair is thinning but still full. Her eyes are green.

Personality: She is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Healer arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Her mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: She is greedy; and regain custody of her son

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 6000 gp. Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (6000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (120 gp). Jeweled anklet (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2900 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.

Description: 4'7" and muscular, this eastern woman prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. She has gold eyes.

Personality: She is a jovial happy person, but she is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. She is accommodating to her spouse and as such limits her hospitality. She is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven herself a capable leader.

History: She was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. She has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to her frivolously. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and she is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Rich, In love. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears baggy white pantaloons and a grey scarf. Her hair is black and very short. She wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when giants swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by giants. Volen was horrified and prayed that her father was alright. However, she heard that her father had died fighting off the giants.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 800 gp. Jade (100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Eye agate (6 gp).