Description: His left thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He wears a green cloak and cross-gartered black stockings. His black hair is smooth and relatively long. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was always a brilliant, if unscrupulous mind. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Barakas has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and doesn't want to be a tanner and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Depressed, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 6000 gp. Freshwater pearl (5 gp). Obsidian (5 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Rich purple corundum (700 gp). Lapis lazuli (5 gp).

Description: This late middle aged man wears a tan tunic with green highlights, and long blue pants that bunch up around his shoes and is in decent physical shape. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His ears are large.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious southern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He found a children's book about a Elf Druid who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Religious, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 3000 gp. Smoky quartz (20 gp). Blue star sapphire (1200 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp).

Description: He is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy brown hair. His green eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the west. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father 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 got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 1000 gp. Rose (50 gp). Star rose quartz (50 gp). Aquamarine (1400 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Violet garnet (1400 gp). Eye agate (15 gp). Alexandrite (1400 gp). Moonstone (50 gp). Freshwater pearl (15 gp). Peridot (50 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: This woman tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with her rolled up shirt sleeves this gives her a very relaxed look, and sports empty pouches on her belt. She wears her red hair down. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

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 is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: She was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A few years later when the east was not economically sound they moved to her current location. She moves from town to town, unable to find a place to settle.

Motivation: She feels threatened by others; and she is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Disciplined, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Fearful. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 1600 pp. Peridot (80 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Jacinth (8000 gp). Red garnet (40 gp). Eye agate (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Hematite (14 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1000 gp). Deep green spinel (40 gp). Jet (40 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (14 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Emerald (1600 gp). Violet garnet (1000 gp). Moonstone (80 gp). Alexandrite (1000 gp). Deep blue spinel (1000 gp). Aquamarine (1000 gp). Chrysoberyl (40 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp). Chrysoprase (80 gp). Silver pearl (40 gp). Moss agate (14 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He wears his silver hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling gray eyes.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He will often invite strangers home for dinner and talk their ears off. He cares deeply for his spouse and does his best to make sure his guests look presentable.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: In love, Slave, Adventurer. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 900 pp. Brown-green garnet (100 gp). Malachite (12 gp). Sardonyx (50 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Sard (50 gp).

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears a brown collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is red and very short. His blue eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Courier but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

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. His druidic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: He's in love; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist, Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 9000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1000 gp). Cloth of gold vestments (140 gp). Old masterpiece painting (1900 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Solid gold idol (1000 gp). Silver chalice with lapis lazuli gems (140 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (140 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). Jeweled gold crown (8000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (6000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His ears are large.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He would rather hide behind his crafts than deal with other people.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. 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, Olunt and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Shy. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 10000 gp. Sard (70 gp). Lapis lazuli (12 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Bloodstone (70 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Tourmaline (110 gp). Brown-green garnet (110 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Eye agate (12 gp). Red garnet (110 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Blue star sapphire (500 gp). Jade (110 gp).