Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is renowned for his bright white suits and hats. His auburn hair is lengthy. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Bertram was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Bertram has worked very hard to control his curse. He became a Sculptor soon after.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to be a masseuse again

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Mundane. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 7000 gp. Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Peridot (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Brown-green garnet (90 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (4 gp). Deep green spinel (90 gp). Sard (70 gp). Chalcedony (70 gp). Black opal (1000 gp). Obsidian (4 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. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This malnourished man wears a simple black robe with tan stripes complete with hood. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are white and beady.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Slave. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 1500 gp.

Description: A hulking woman with gigantic muscles, she wears black leather gloves, a black jacket, and tight pants. Her long scarlet crest is drawn into a two foot long braid. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

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 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: She is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. A freak accident while working with her Priest mother left her crippled. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Shy, Disease. Bonds: Family, Rich. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 2000 cp.

Description: This younger middle-aged woman wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with small hat, and a wedding ring on her right hand. Her crest is red and very short. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

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 cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. In her 17th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. During her travels, Aasathra and her party rested in a cavern that was (unknown to them) infused with powerful dark magic. Upon awakening, Aasathra discovered the rest of her party dead, transformed into horrible, mindless undead versions of their former selves. Aasathra fled the cavern, stopping for breath at a small pool, and only then realizing her own horrible transformation.

Motivation: She wants to meet her childhood hero; and she has passion for adventuring and risk

Flaws: Antagonistic, Fearful, Disease. Bonds: In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1000 gp. Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (100 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He considers himself a man of culture and sophistication. He likes a good challenge to his wits. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Heian is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Heian was born on a far eastern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Apothecary. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable, Justice. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Relaxed voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Rich purple corundum (1400 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). Red-brown spinel (60 gp). Lapis lazuli (14 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is lean but muscular and sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. His black fur is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: Smoking hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his singing career. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He got into the Spice Merchant business at a young age. When the war came and ruined his parents he was left adrift. He was a hard man then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. He became a Spice Merchant soon after.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Hedonist, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 13000 cp.

Description: The woman speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. She seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if she got out from a pool a few moments ago. She is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured. Her chestnut hair is well kept. Her violet eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She constantly seizes attention wherever she goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. She likes to think of herself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. Her father was a soldier and died while she was still young. Xanaphia was left her father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She guards a vault combo very seriously as well as the key needed to open it.

Motivation: She is content.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant, Military. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 320 gp. Azurite (10 gp). 1 Breastplate.