Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep black leather and dull white iron scale mail. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is white and very short. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

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: A powerful necromancer made him what he is. 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 now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 600 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1000 gp). Pink pearl (120 gp). Blue sapphire (1000 gp). Alexandrite (900 gp).

Description: An older 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, he is not a threatening figure. He keeps his black hair in a pixie cut. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a pretentious jerk insisting that modern society is full of problems and should revert to a simpler time. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. 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 is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 100 gp. Banded agate (15 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a physically imposing dark-skinned woman. She tends to wear a yellow poncho over her likewise colored trousers and shirt. Her black hair is heavily combed to the right. Her eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. Her respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to her, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, she tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in her reactions to snap at those who irritate her, Ilanis is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. Her father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but she insists her father was legitimate. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

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

Ideals: Optimist, Justice. Bonds: Religious, Family, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has moderate length black hair. He is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Bhevek is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is stubborn though. He always likes to keep a trick up his sleeve. He likes to fight dirty and will kick and punch below the belt if he feels he even has a chance of losing.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his father. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Extrovert. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 25000 sp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Red spinel (70 gp). Star rose quartz (40 gp). Obsidian (5 gp).

Description: He wears a violet vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his violet boots flare out at the collars. His white hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. He has amber eyes and a violet hat with a black feather.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Shoemaker business.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Shoemaker. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Revenge; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 70 pp. 1 Darkwood Buckler.