Description: 5'0" and muscular, this northern man is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His lavender fur has been sun bleached extensively. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is always cheerful, even with a hangover, and is always willing to go through all sorts of trouble to help his friends. He considers everything a fun event and doesn't hold grudges. He disdains his fellow northerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He was granted psionic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This woman is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. She is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. She has done her best to style her chestnut hair to look like a famous performer. Her eyes are silver and catlike.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She plays an instrument quite well.

History: She was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Bryseis was born on a far western plains where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Laborer. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes.

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 90 gp.

Description: An imposing woman with a heavy stainless steel prosthetic right leg, she wears a worn and beaten armor. She wears a broad hat to hide her balding. She has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: She is a Bowyer first and foremost. She believes firmly that knowledge should be universal. She always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove her into the Bowyer business.

History: She was born several months after her mother was called into army service. Her mother was a soldier and died while she was still young. Juliana was left her mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. She now owns her own business.

Motivation: She is greedy; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Persistence. Bonds: Rich, Job, Military. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: This western man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is white and curly. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Mason. He has achieved small success as a Mason.

Motivation: Nothing but the best is good enough for him; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Persistence, Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Slave. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 130 gp. Carnelian (60 gp). 1 Banded mail.

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered brown stockings. He has a very tight haircut. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Born in the east to a Adventurer, Gerard learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. He worked as a nervous Adventurer and found it very stressful. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: To be a Bookbinder again.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Shy, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Switch between two voices

Possessions: 600 sp.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He wears his brown hair up. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. He has a hair trigger and will fly into rage over the tiniest perceived slights.

History: The child of western immigrants he idolized his mother. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. After a long history of fighting, Arnold and his spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 300 sp.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears grey robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a greataxe, but if one is not available he will default to his bastard sword. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is always in debt, since he spends his money on lavish parties and gifts for friends

History: Elaim hails from a village terrorized by brigands. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Many brigands want him driven away.

Flaws: Antagonistic, Impulsive. Bonds: Enemies, Adventurer. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Low range voice

Possessions: 500 sp. Moonstone (30 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. His chestnut hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His eyes are a pleasant hazel.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He plays an instrument quite well.

History: He was born in the south. Aside from being a slave or a gladiator, there isn't much legitimate work for Dwarves in Kilvar's homeland. Kilvar decided to take the middle way and become a bodyguard. He has never given up on his singing dream.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Fighting. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 4000 cp. 1 Half-Plate.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with red lining and desert motifs. He wears a colorful flower in his white hair. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He takes great joy in being the best Healer in town.

History: Trained by his mother for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His mother was a soldier and died while he was still young. Fulbar was left his mother's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Healer for hire.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Military. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Breathy voice

Possessions: Just what you see.