Description: He is a husky man, who typically wears violet cloth garments or leather armor. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has a dull look in his gray eyes.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Bertram grew up listening to his father's many stories. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Dwarven artifacts is his passion.

Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job. Occupation: Spy

Voice: Forgets to breathe while speaking

Possessions: 800 sp. 1 Disguise kit.

Description: A middle-aged man, he wears a red vest and prefers violet and pastel shirts. His boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down, and is pretty ugly. Sporting a silver mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His ears are large.

Personality: He runs his personal life as if detached from it. He organizes appointments and outings based on perceived benefits he will get from it. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A freak accident while working with his Glassblower father left him crippled. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and to reunite with his old friends

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish, Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 40 pp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking western young adult. He wears tight fitting clothing which further accentuates his frame. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. He has hazel eyes.

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. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Jak was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Slave, Mentor. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Uses sign language

Possessions: 200 sp. Jet (130 gp).

Description: 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. He carries a battered falchion and tarnished morningstar as well. His blue hair is greasy and uncared for. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady gold eyes.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He receives visions of the future at random moments

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 spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and to reunite with his old friends

Ideals: Fighting, Justice, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: An imposing man with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, he wears a black shirt with thin red vertical stripes and green pants. His copper crest is singed and shortened. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. Through the years after Salasar was born, his father became increasingly distant from his family, instead choosing to pursue power in the south. Salasar's father didn't care for him much, and the feeling was mutual. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and he's looking for his big break

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Forgetful. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 20 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She keeps her long brown hair kept up in a rat tail. Her eyes are green and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: The woman has a huge range of feeling. She will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how she will be a better person from this day on. She passes on several rewards to people in need. She makes a point to leave places better than she found them.

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. Days after completing her studies, news broke out that her hometown was attacked by gnolls. Emmeline was horrified and prayed that her mother was alright. However, she heard that her mother had died fighting off the gnolls.

Motivation: Her name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and she desires to right it; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Philantrophist, Artistic. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies. Occupation: Priest

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: Solid gold idol (200 gp).

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His hair is golden and curly. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He is very protective of his business, his home, and his spouse. He is willing to work with less than legal methods but maintains the front of legitimacy.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Being a Herbalist kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has decided he is irredeemable.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 260 gp. Sard (30 gp). Deep green spinel (60 gp). Amethyst (60 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears a white cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has a blonde handlebar mustache and slicked back blonde hair. His amber eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Animal Trainer born in the past three hundred years. He loves teas. He is very sensitive about his face. To blow off anger he lifts weights and to control his otherwise explosive temper he works out a lot.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To unite with his sister; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Job, Family. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Squeaky

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average woman, she is not imposing. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has slicked back red hair. She has a tattooed face.

Personality: She trusts no one. She is not readily capable for forgiveness and her ire never leaves her. When she's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, she's doing writing.

History: Heir to a fortune, her parents put a great deal of effort into curing her disease. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Antagonistic, Disease. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 40 gp. Brown-green garnet (160 gp).