Description: He is in excellent shape and is wearing a long, green, dusty cloak. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born in a small mountains village. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains 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 mountains due to the painful memories there. Balam took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor he uses now. He now travels the world, in search of power and loot.

Motivation: To unite with his brother; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Disease, Shy. Bonds: Nature, Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Italian accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Eye agate (6 gp). Chalcedony (30 gp). Tourmaline (40 gp). Chrysoprase (30 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Aquamarine (900 gp). Rhodochrosite (6 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A 5'1" western man, he is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His black hair is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. He is underhanded and not above using his wealth and body to get others to do his bidding.

History: Gifted from a young age, Caeldrim studied abroad. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Masseuse for the past few years.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Masseuse responsibilities is difficult; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Adventurer, Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 8000 gp. Deep blue spinel (600 gp). Golden yellow topaz (600 gp). Fire opal (1400 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear blue clothing when he does not wear armor. He has relatively dark skin and is very physically imposing due to his abundance of muscles. His hair, while still mostly golden, has prominent grey streaks. His hazel eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is quite rude, and likes to deride his opponents skill and shout insults at them. He will do just about anything if he becomes convinced it is for someone's true love, of this he is easily convinced.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His first spouse was a Knight, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He's since become an addict/alcoholic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush, Military, Family. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 600 pp. Star rose quartz (50 gp). Golden pearl (150 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Carnelian (50 gp). White pearl (150 gp). Citrine (50 gp). Golden yellow topaz (200 gp). Fiery yellow corundum (500 gp). Aquamarine (200 gp). Fire opal (500 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Jade (150 gp). Chalcedony (50 gp). Rose (50 gp). Red spinel (150 gp). Deep blue spinel (200 gp). Violet garnet (200 gp). Rose (50 gp). Iolite (50 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He 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. His white hair is knotted and matted. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He is obsessed with his god.

History: Born to a Interpreter, his mother struggled to pay the bills. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Flaws: Addict. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Religious, Poor. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 5000 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Black star sapphire (1300 gp). Brown-green garnet (130 gp). Chalcedony (40 gp). Violet garnet (1200 gp). White opal (1300 gp). Citrine (40 gp). Iolite (40 gp). Lapis lazuli (13 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: He wears professional attire. He carries with him a set of scimitars on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. With bright chestnut hair and a scraggly beard. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. 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. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Varis 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 to find somewhere to settle down

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Depressed, Fearful, Mundane. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 800 pp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Jeweled electrum ring (7000 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2200 gp). A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold music box (1000 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (100 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (3000 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (100 gp). Solid gold idol (1200 gp). A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (100 gp). Gold and ruby ring (7000 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (2000 gp). 1 Medium magic item. 1 Medium magic item.

Description: She is lean but muscular and wears tattered old clothes. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. Her spectacle hidden eyes are a deep white.

Personality: She is a melancholic, but persistent worker. She resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. 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 to loving parents in a slum to the south. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She has a rivalry with the Church that dominates her actions; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Mercenary

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 900 pp. Eye agate (6 gp). Tourmaline (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Eye agate (6 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Sardonyx (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Pink pearl (80 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A thin man, he clearly needs to put on some weight, but he still has a lot of muscle. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop fur cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: The child of southern immigrants he idolized his father. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Joker, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 pp. 1 Minor magic item.