Description: He stands about 5'4" and is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. He wears a small hat to cover his moderate length silver hair. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gold eyes.

Personality: He is very quiet and rarely speaks above a whisper. He enjoys reading and quiet.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Barakas was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He has been helping groups of widows and orphans who have fled abusive spouses or lost their families to gnolls.

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

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 110000 cp. Obsidian (4 gp). Azurite (4 gp). Blue star sapphire (1300 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Pink pearl (110 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a yellow collared shirt and brown pants. He accessorizes with a black scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His blonde hair is braided into rings. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Shane was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. 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: He is wracked by social anxiety.

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: This man wears a brown shirt with thin white vertical stripes and brown pants, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His yellow fur is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His eyes are hazel and catlike.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: He doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Disciplined, Impeccable. Bonds: In love, Poor, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 190 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears silk and lounges about seductively. His black hair is still thick. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ogg embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Ogg abandoned his home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. He survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. He did whatever it took for him to survive. After a long history of fighting, Ogg and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Poor. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He is physically well-built. His head has been shaved. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady blue eyes.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Courier who has hired him part-time. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Peren was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. In his 20th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother 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 was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He would like to get married and retire.

Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Has a crush, Rich, Mentor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 10000 cp. Star ruby (600 gp). Malachite (5 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp).

Description: He is an attractive man, lean and moderately muscular. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized black coat. He has dyed his greying black crest a little too much giving a sharp black color. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: Bidreked was born with his father's beautiful face. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Shepherd

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 9000 sp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1600 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (90 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: The dark-skinned woman stands 4'7" and wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. She has black hair. Her otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. When she grew older, she became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. She began work as a mercenary for hire. She would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 4000 gp. Jeweled gold crown (3000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (130 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (800 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (800 gp). Solid gold idol (400 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (1000 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is a paragon of her species. She is larger and stronger than most Gnomes. Her skin is dark but she possesses many white ritualistic tattoos. She is well dressed, but even with her fine clothing she looks run-down. Her brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She is curt in most of her responses. She prefers to keep her word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Trained by her father for as long as she can remember she had it drilled in her head that it was her duty to serve her country. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Shoemaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She is untrained/undisciplined, which makes her dangerous.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and sabotage a competitor

Flaws: Shy, Insane. Bonds: Job, Military, Poor. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 3000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Solid gold idol (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1400 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1400 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (110 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (2100 gp).

Description: Standing 6'5", this man wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with feathered hat. He wears his red crest up. His fierce red eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Arjhan was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His mother was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his mother was legitimate. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and obtaining odd cultural gnomish artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Religious, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 300 gp.