Description: He is a husky man, who is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Butcher business.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Butcher.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and sabotage a competitor

Ideals: Joker, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. Her black hair is knotted and matted. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: A powerful brothel owner made her what she is. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching her a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break; and she is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Mentor, Slave. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 70 gp. Amber (130 gp). Alexandrite (600 gp).

Description: A well shaped woman just over fifty, she wears a red vest and prefers black and yellow shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her silver hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. She has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. She is skeptical of what others tell her and is slow to trust.

History: She was born into a rich family. 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 Beggar. She's also a talented Stylist, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: A deep hatred of dire rats; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during, and is pretty ugly. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 south. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and wants to raise his children well

Flaws: Ugly, Emotional. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a white small hat and white clothes. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the south. He works hard and plays hard.

History: His divine talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He always admired divine-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 300 gp. Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (500 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (40 gp). Silver ewer (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item.