Description: A moderately attractive man, he is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is red and curly. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Faran was raised in a hard working conservative environment. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. She has dyed her greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. Her half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Sage. She has worked as a Sage like her father before her.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor.

Ideals: Athletic, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Job. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is scrawny and has patchy black stubble. She is wearing a long, tan, dusty cloak. She has a hunchback. Her black hair is singed and shortened. Her brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Her philosophy is that everyone needs a friend and as such shows hospitality towards all.

History: She was born several months after her father was called into army service. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Meriele was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother; and to reunite with her absent father

Ideals: Professionalism, Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Performer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 800 sp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he dresses in brown turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with green slacks. His chestnut hair is lengthy. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines hazel.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. He is a great chef.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. His parents enrolled him in a Bard school at a young age so that he could practice his necromantic talents. He was granted necromantic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insomniac. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 200 pp. Gold music box (3000 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (100 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Solid gold idol (700 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (3000 gp).

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and white handkerchief worn on his right side. His red hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a small hat. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He takes great joy in being the best Dyer in town.

History: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his mother. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and money/treasure

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 8000 cp.