Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop hair cut. His brown eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is enamored with his job. He loves it. He likes the challenge and he likes helping those less fortunate than him. He loves being with his children and actually smiles when they are around. He would do anything for them. He dislikes his ex a great deal.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1100 pp. Citrine (80 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp). Malachite (13 gp). Moss agate (13 gp). Emerald (1100 gp). Hematite (13 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Black opal (1100 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1100 gp). Blue star sapphire (1100 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp).

Description: A moderately attractive man, 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 long brown hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He uses his nature as a weapon; he likes to lead opponents to think him in distress.

History: He was born in a small island village. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Whispers

Possessions: 12000 gp. A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (1300 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (70 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (3000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (700 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (70 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Recently a tribe of drow attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Heian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 8000 gp. Jade (40 gp). Banded agate (5 gp). Jet (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Jet (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Amethyst (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Rock crystal (40 gp). Red spinel (40 gp). Pink pearl (40 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp).

Description: She is an average looking western female in her early mid-life. She wears a brown vest and prefers violet and grey shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her golden hair is smooth and relatively long. She wears a mask on her face.

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 claims to be unscrupulous but at the end of the day she will do what she thinks is right.

History: Her parents moved while she was still in utero so she is the first generation to be born here. In her formative years she discovered how persuasive she was. She began using that to her advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and retire the richest woman in the west

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 2000 gp. Rose (60 gp). Rock crystal (60 gp). Obsidian (4 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Star rose quartz (60 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Amethyst (130 gp). Black pearl (900 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (1400 gp). Iolite (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she is typically in her Laborer uniform. Her black hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a wide-brimmed hat. Her eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: She is irritable and easily angered. She is a bit of a bully and is not afraid to use her stature and powers to intimidate and hurt. She is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born in the south to a Laborer, Alice learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Laborer and found it very stressful. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and expand her business

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Spanish accent

Possessions: Malachite (10 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Jet (90 gp). Coral (90 gp). Lapis lazuli (10 gp). Moonstone (30 gp). Rhodochrosite (10 gp). Blue sapphire (900 gp). Hematite (10 gp). Obsidian (10 gp). Violet garnet (1100 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat. He has wavy silver hair. His violet unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born in the north, but his parents moved at a very young age to the south. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and retire the richest man in the north

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Cynical. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Citrine (70 gp). Star rose quartz (70 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1300 gp). Deep green spinel (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (8 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Eye agate (8 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is typically in her Tailor uniform. She is portly but not overly obese. Her purple hair is still thick. Her face is full, her cheeks are rosy, and she always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in her silver eyes.

Personality: She is a sleazy, sleazy gal. She has no qualms about using her powers of suggestion to get people to do what she wants. She is underhanded and not above using her wealth and body to get others to do her bidding.

History: Shava was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Shava has worked very hard to control her curse. 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. Shava fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To reunite with her old friends; and she wants to meet her childhood hero

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job, Attractive, Adventurer. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 3000 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Silver pearl (130 gp). White pearl (130 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Citrine (60 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (5 gp). Black opal (900 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Jet (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Carnelian (60 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Black pearl (1200 gp). Rhodochrosite (5 gp). Blue quartz (5 gp). Coral (130 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Red spinel (130 gp). Eye agate (5 gp). Red garnet (130 gp). Emerald (900 gp). Blue star sapphire (900 gp). Red garnet (130 gp).