Description: He is in excellent shape and wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. He has done his best to style his black hair to look like a famous performer. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are black.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: Akmen 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. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Persistence, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 500 gp. Red-brown spinel (140 gp). Banded agate (12 gp). Malachite (12 gp).

Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing grey cape and mantle trimmed with soft black waves gently in the breeze. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are brown and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle.

Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Family, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking southern young adult. She is dressed in earthy colors with a black and pastel handkerchief worn on her left side. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. She has wavy white hair. Her eyes are likewise black. Her teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: She is extraordinarily eccentric. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was raised happily, as a normal child born to her mother and father. Her mother taught her the rudiments of the Fletcher arts, while her father instructed her in etiquette, music and courtly manner. Prosperine abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and meet up once more with her childhood friend

Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Slave, Attractive, Family, Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Runty and weak-looking, she is wearing a long, violet cloak. She has slicked back chestnut hair. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. She is an amazing painter.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Brilliant and gifted she never wanted to apply herself. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and to end her boredom

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Mundane, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 7000 sp.

Description: She wears a fancy yellow dress. She has relatively light skin and is very physically imposing due to her abundance of muscles. Her red hair is knotted and matted. She was beautiful and young once, which still shows through her age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She refers to her adoptive mother for almost all things she is unsure about, which are numerous. She is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: When she was but 6 years old her parents immigrated from the west. While she appears to be a normal Half-Elf, she's... not quite right. Perhaps she's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that she plain doesn't fit in. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: Wants a kiss; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Sensitive, Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 90 gp.