Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. His long red hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Marbas's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He has all his life been fascinated with writing.

History: Marbas was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. He moved from fad to fad and when he turned 15 he discovered writing. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of specialists.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Persistence. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His green leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. He wears his purple hair down. His eyes are white and catlike.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He does not regard money as being a problem because it has never been a problem for him. He lives in a bit of an ivory tower believing all problems are one quick intervention away from being solved.

History: He got into the Adventurer business at a young age. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the island due to the painful memories there. Mordai took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up mace and armor he uses now. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and balancing his hectic life and new adventurer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright grey and white, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. With a patchy black beard and wild black hair. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. 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 Barrister. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Barrister responsibilities is difficult; and he uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive, Family, Job. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Magnifying glass.

Description: This western man is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is knotted and matted. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Low rumbling, strings words together

Possessions: 3000 sp. Aquamarine (400 gp). Rose (30 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). Violet garnet (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a blue vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His tan leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his blue boots flare out at the collars. His blonde hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. His brief stint in the army gave him the idea he was invincible and that he is the toughest man alive.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is dressed in an above average manner. He is an epitome of beauty. His brown hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his amber eyes.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He is a bit of a macho man and will challenge people to random contests of strength and skill, and invite them to random hunting and fishing trip.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Hadarai liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Hadarai fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Bonds: Attractive, Nature, Immigrant. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 pp. A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (600 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (2000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1500 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp).

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His brown fur is lengthy. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born in the east. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Fighting, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Terse. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Server

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 4'0" when asserting himself. His white hair is smooth and relatively long. He is missing an eye and his face is severely sunburned. His one remaining eye shines blue.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Fortune-teller arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He used his abilities to trick people and travel the world for free.

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

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 1200 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). A life-sized copper and silver statuette of a cockatrice. (80 gp).

Description: She prefers to wear the grand gowns of high society. She carries her fan with her everywhere and carries herself as the perfect lady, and she perpetually has her mace ready. Her dark red hair is thinning but still full. Her skin is flawless and her silver eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is soft-spoken, optimistic and speaks nonstop, as she rather likes the sound of her voice. Her demeanor is somewhat feminine. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Rieta was born with her father's beautiful face. Her father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted her to inherit them. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 1600 gp. Red garnet (70 gp). Blue quartz (15 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.