Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has a hunchback. His hair is brown and curly. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He moved out north to avoid the crime he committed. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 100 gp. Chrysoprase (40 gp). Hematite (5 gp). Jet (100 gp).

Description: A woman with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. She wears a grey shirt, with a pastel mid length skirt with pastel tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. Her moppish red hair is in a traditional bowl cut. Her hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. She claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Born in the north her family was never financially stable. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Artin has worked very hard to control her curse. Since then, she has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Justice. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 340 gp.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a tea of some kind. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment, marred by teas. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy black hair. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Sage born in the past three hundred years. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. 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 Sage. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Sage for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and to be a seamstress again

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Job, Military. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 1200 gp.

Description: A 3'4" southern woman, she very much looks the part of a Merchant. Her hair is chestnut and curly. Her eyes are blue and catlike.

Personality: She is shy and timid. She has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: She is a Jackalwere in disguise. She inherited a moderately successful company from her mother. Under her leadership it has flourished, and using capital from her venture she effectively owns an entire region. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Rich, Family. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Bullseye lantern.

Description: This younger middle-aged man is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes., and a wedding ring on his left hand. He has a red handlebar mustache and slicked back red hair. His eyes are hazel.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered poetry. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He seems to be bored by most things; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, In love. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1100 pp. Blue sapphire (500 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Rich purple corundum (500 gp). Violet garnet (1600 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Canary diamond (6000 gp). Citrine (80 gp). Azurite (14 gp). Zircon (80 gp). White pearl (100 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Amber (100 gp). Jet (100 gp). Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Zircon (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a brown armored body suit, with a simple grey line shooting up and back down. He has red hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: Vonbin was born the youngest of three triplets. Being born in the north, 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 north 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 west. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 2000 sp.

Description: This woman is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of her physical features obscured, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her hair is auburn and curly. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: Volen wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Barbarian, so she tries to act the part. She does a good job, for the most part... She is harsh and unforgiving.

History: Volen hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. She always admired martial-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. She was granted martial powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She wants revenge against dire rats.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 43000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.