Description: This late middle aged man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time and is in decent physical shape. His golden hair is lengthy. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Immigrant, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 300 gp. 1 Hourglass.

Description: He wears dull brown sweaters, loose violet pants, and alligator leather shoes. Beneath his sweater he keeps a concealed greataxe, just in case. He carries a battered club and tarnished greataxe as well. He has dyed his greying golden hair a little too much giving a sharp golden color. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Erias lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His mother disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his mother, he was betrayed dozens of times. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Painter they were divorced and he won custody of their son. He worked as a Weaver, and he later adopted a second son.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and doesn't want to be a weaver and was forced into it by his family

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Slurs words

Possessions: 60 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This slender woman stands about 4'8". She is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by her earthly robes.. She keeps her blonde hair in a flapper bob. She wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: She is overprotective of those who hire her services. She has a minor phobia of water and hates getting wet.

History: Born to a Bookbinder, her father struggled to pay the bills. When she was little, her rather wealthy family often ventured across the forest to a summer home near a large cave. She would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and she was stranded inside. Her family spent the next few days looking for her, and could only assume she was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the forest due to the painful memories there. Ielenia took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up pickaxe and armor she uses now. She bought a pickaxe and has really upped her game hunting, due to her understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: She is wracked by social anxiety.

Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: This dark-skinned female wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with brown lining and desert motifs. She is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. Her blonde hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. Her face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: She does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. She is a great chef.

History: She was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. After coming to the age of reason, Helgret took it upon herself to study the necromantic arts in their entirety; because of this, she was labeled a dark omen and banished from her homeland. She has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is content

Ideals: Justice, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Mundane. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: 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. She wears a Stetson hat to cover her moderate length chestnut hair. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Her voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl she speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of her tone. She does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. Her parents enrolled her in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that she could practice her necromantic talents. She was granted necromantic powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical, Insane, Insomniac. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: He has a missing right arm. He prefers to wear green clothing when he does not wear armor. His black hair is heavily combed to the right. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He has recently attracted an admirer that believes he's playing hard to get.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Antagonistic. Bonds: Has a crush. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She likes to wear ponchos typically of a light tan in addition to tight pants. With bright silver hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: In the realm of puns, she cannot help herself. She feels obliged to make them. The war was a terrible time for her, and Meriele does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered painting. Some 5 years later her spouse died after the birth of her daughter. Heartbroken, Meriele never married again. Instead she focused her life to raising her daughter whom she trained as her father had trained her before.

Motivation: She loathes her own lifestyle; and she feels kind of lost in life

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Flaws: Depressed, PTSD. Bonds: Poor, Military. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 100 gp. A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (10 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (400 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp).

Description: She dresses in black turtlenecks beneath a brown coat with green slacks. She has no hair. Her gold eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She never wears the same outfit twice, unless she absolutely has to.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Her mother worked until she suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. She had to support her now crippled mother and took her mother's old job. When her spouse passed she lost her only source of income but claims to her sons to still be retired.

Motivation: To unite with her brother; and an old rival family wants her found

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1200 sp. Smoky quartz (60 gp). Brown-green garnet (140 gp). 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. He has golden hair. He has several tiny amethyst earrings on each ear.

Personality: He is calm most of the time but flees social interaction. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way north. 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: A deep hatred of goblins; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Shy, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich, Family, Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 3000 cp.