Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His red hair is greasy and uncared for. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Paelias is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his brothers into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: Gifted from a young age, Paelias studied abroad. 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 has been saving his money to try and buy his brother's freedom.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Mentor. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She wears black trousers with brown and blue striped suspenders. She wears various colorful collared shirts. Her green crest is greasy and uncared for. She has several tiny ruby earrings on each ear.

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 lacks restraint and is impulsive. She jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She struck it rich when she found rare goods in large quantities. She now mingles about in high society.

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 is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: 300 gp. Solid gold idol (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a yellow tunic with blue highlights, and long tan pants that bunch up around his shoes, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 5'2" when asserting himself. His silver hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are green.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Bounty Hunter.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Passionate, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. He carries a battered ceremonial dagger and tarnished halberd as well. His silver crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: He is envious of other's things. He hoards treasure, art, food, wine, and anything that he so desires. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: He was born into a rich family. He was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. His spouse died of illness and he inherited everything. 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; and he wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Greedy. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 50 pp.

Description: He is wearing a long, blue cloak. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly shields and shortspears. He wears his auburn hair up. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep amber.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bricklayer for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious, Job. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Rhymes sentences (sorry)

Possessions: 400 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic left leg, she wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates her frame. She has silver hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She is cool and collected. She likes to make quips and puns whenever she does anything. She also makes a point to compliment her superiors and flatter them. She has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Morana grew up listening to her mother's many stories. 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 dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Insomniac, Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 1400 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: 3'7" and muscular, this northern man is wearing a long, blue cloak. His hair is cut close to his head. This violet eyed northerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He has zero loyalty and will suck up to whomever is within range, in the hopes of being moved to a better position.

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. In his 17th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He's in love; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 1100 gp.

Description: He is wearing a long, grey cloak. He carries with him a set of lances on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. He wears a colorful flower in his chestnut hair. He has amber eyes and a grey hat with a red feather.

Personality: He is a hateful person. He taunts others and blames them for his problems. 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, Eberk is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the west. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family. Occupation: Sage

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 1600 sp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: He is a mite stocky and is wearing a long, violet cloak. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has all his life been fascinated with poetry.

History: He was raised in a island tribe. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: He wants revenge against goblins; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by goblins, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Pacifist, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 8000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.