Description: He stands about 3'4" and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. His right leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has styled his chestnut hair well, parting it to the right. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: He was raised by priests from a young age. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. After months of barely getting by, Jak managed to ambush a major caravan with a load of valuables. Instantly wealthy, he made his way to the capital under a new identity.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Humans. Her skin is light but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She wears long strands of emerald and short grey dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Her blonde hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a Stetson hat. Her violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: She resents people who mock her appearance or her, so she has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. As she has aged she has sought to do reparations for her actions as a youth. She is also making sure that her compatriots who never received punishment for their crimes are brought to justice.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. She moved out east to avoid the crime she committed. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She will attempt to ambush and attack anyone she thinks she can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, she will try to sell them to her slave-trader contact; and she has decided she is irredeemable

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Disease, Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 sp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He is dressed in an above average manner. He wears his brown hair up. His black unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. He advanced relatively quickly due to his good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 390 gp.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He has the majority of his body covered in plate. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His brass crest is long and unkept. His red eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Nykkan lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has been saving his money to try and buy his sister's freedom.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to unite with his sister

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Slave, Family. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 13000 sp. Old masterpiece painting (2200 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (170 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (170 gp). Solid gold idol (600 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she wears a black shirt with thin green vertical stripes and blue pants. Her hair is red, silky, and of moderate length. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: While she acts the brute, she is far gentler than she would appear. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Sold as a small child to a brothel owner, Anakis was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. She eventually earned her freedom when her former master disappeared. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Anakis fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Mentor, Enemies. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: French accent

Possessions: Iolite (70 gp). Emerald (1200 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp). Pink pearl (100 gp). Smoky quartz (70 gp).

Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. He sports a flattop hair cut. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Gifted from a young age, Alston studied abroad. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. 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: To reunite with his old friends; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. 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, Burana is combative with any and all who dare try her patience in the slightest.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Burana was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: To unite with her sister; and retire the richest woman in the east

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 29000 cp.