Description: He wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. He is portly but not overly obese. His chestnut hair is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are green and beady.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Olunt lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His first spouse was a Shepherd, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and regain custody of his son

Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Family, Criminal record. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. His long white hair reaches down to his waist. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. 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 was born in the east. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. 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: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Justice, Fighting, Athletic. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: 900 gp. Tourmaline (50 gp). Fire opal (400 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep grey leather and dull violet iron scale mail. Her auburn hair is unkempt and raggedy. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She tends to agree with only herself unless someone else's opinion sounds like she can profit from it. She tries to control her temper but she can't always stop herself from what she feels what must be done. She keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to her own.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is her passion.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This tall, slender woman wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized violet coat. Her blonde hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her blue eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: She never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. She invented a lineage for herself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. She spent several years traveling with her friend, before both settled down to enjoy the fruits of their adventures.

Motivation: Regain custody of her son; and marry her brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Religious, Family. Occupation: Navigator

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: He wears a brown vest and prefers tan and white shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. His chestnut hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His gray eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Lewis has worked very hard to control his curse. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 1100 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has blonde hair. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: Calm and collected, he is a well trained Spice Merchant. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Born in the east to a Spice Merchant, Shag learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He helped his mother out around the business and became quite the natural. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This eastern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. His eyes are likewise brown.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. 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: The child of a Shoemaker, who enjoyed hunting, Kyle was taken on many hunting expeditions. He always admired psionic-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his sons to still be retired.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Family, Nature, Rich. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: Fire opal (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears a tan tunic with green highlights, and long grey pants that bunch up around her shoes. Her blonde hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. Her brown eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: She is unhospitable to her core. Her small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. She is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: She served in the navy to pay for her family's outstanding loans. Through the years after Siffress was born, her father became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the east. Siffress's father didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has dedicated herself to building a better trade route.

Motivation: She has passion for adventuring and risk; and balancing her hectic life and new miner responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears skinny pants and wears a brown and white robe with the hood down. He sports a long blonde beard, and similarly colored long hair. His eyes are gray and catlike.

Personality: Elaim hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his painting career. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. After a long history of fighting, Elaim and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Artistic, Professionalism, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 380 gp.