Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: Deceptive and manipulative this western guy figured out how to best use his charms to convince people to do what he wants. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. Some 7 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Oriax never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs.

Ideals: Professionalism. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Rich. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90000 cp. Fire opal (800 gp). Aquamarine (1500 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp). Amethyst (140 gp). Malachite (16 gp). Jet (140 gp).

Description: She is a pot bellied eastern woman with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She has all her life been fascinated with writing.

History: She was a bastard born out of an affair, and her mother always resented and mistreated her for it out of spite. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her mother, who blamed her for driving them apart. She has never given up on her writing dream.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 80 gp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). He is an epitome of beauty. His red hair is braided into rings. His eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: He goes out his way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one he won't accept into his heart. 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: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. While he appears to be a normal Human, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion.

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Family, Poor. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He carries with him a set of lances on his belt, each one with a opal on the hilt. His silver hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Body Guard. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. Rolen enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. He worked as a nervous Body Guard and found it very stressful. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Body Guard.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Fighting, Gifted. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His ears are large.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born on a small isolated farm. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 40 pp.

Description: Standing 6'7", this man is wearing a tight black one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He wears a feathered hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is almost excessively polite to everyone, even when angry. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world.

Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Impulsive, Mundane. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 70 pp. Deep green spinel (140 gp). Moss agate (6 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: She is an average looking eastern female in her early mid-life. She wears a tight fitting black shirt and pants. Her green crest is smooth and relatively long. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: While she is on the job, she is grim and serious. She understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. She spends most of her days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There she gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Akra was born the youngest of three triplets. She couldn't stand her childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with her mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to reunite with her absent mother

Bonds: Criminal record, Adventurer, Family, Mentor, Religious. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 400 gp. Iolite (50 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.