Description: A man with thick toned arms and a paunchy gut. He is generally shirtless and showing off his tattooed chest. His bronze crest is unkempt and raggedy. His eyes are a pleasant gold.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When money was particularly tight he was walking through alleys when he overheard a Guard hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. He made his way to the other competitor and parlayed his knowledge into a job. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic, Pacifist, Professionalism, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: 130 gp. 2 Thunderstones.

Description: He stands about 6'6" and wears a brown costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has lavender fur. His half smiles and hazel eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: Seven is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He lacks restraint and is impulsive. He jumps in and acts without thinking all too often.

History: Seven was born with his mother's beautiful face. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To prove his worth to the world; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Extrovert. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Sounds elderly

Possessions: 30 gp. Moonstone (20 gp).

Description: A woman with a cold, calculating air about her, she is wearing a long, violet, dusty cloak. Her white hair is wavy and long. Her green eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic woman, Althaea's first love is herself. Her second love is also herself. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage son.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. She tends to her Locksmith job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Impeccable, Athletic. Bonds: Adventurer, Family, Rich, Job. Occupation: Locksmith

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 190 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (100 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A thin woman, she clearly needs to put on some weight, but she still has a lot of muscle. She is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing yellow cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her thin eyebrows rest above her beady blue eyes.

Personality: She is irascible and easily irritated. She lacks moral complications. She does what she is told to by employers but not much else. She spends her money on whatever she fancies at the time.

History: She was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of her parents. She worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. She has built up a small fortune and can afford her own way.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and she is unsatisfied with her job

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: This younger middle-aged man wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs, and a wedding ring on his left hand. He sports a flattop hair cut. His hazel eyes peer out from beneath his deerstalker black hat.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Ar-Baruk is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He comes from a rich western family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. 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: He has money and likes to spend it.

Ideals: Opinionated, Justice, Logical. Bonds: In love, Rich. Occupation: Beggar

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 300 gp. 2 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears tight fighting clothing, which leaves very little to the imagination. His auburn hair and beard is wavy and long. His eyes are likewise gray. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. 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 a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. When Sindri reached his early adolescence his Gnome father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Military. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 120 gp. Tourmaline (110 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 6'0" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. Sporting a brown mohawk and bushy mustache this man's hair draws a lot of attention. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his small white hat.

Personality: Quiet and reserved he prefers to listen than to talk. He will nod occasionally and communicate nonverbally. He feeds upon the attention of others.

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. Ostracized due to the psionic powers of his oldest brother, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Half-Orcs became a terror of the countryside. He hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army.

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Attractive, Military. Occupation: Painter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (50 gp).

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a faded coat and loose pants complete with broad hat. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. His eyes are likewise blue. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when drow swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. He worked as a nervous Knight and found it very stressful. He struck the Knight job and began his own company from there.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and balancing his hectic life and new knight responsibilities is difficult

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'3". He wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. He has moderate length blue hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: He was born in the south, but his parents moved at a very young age to the east. 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 Carter. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: He'd like to take his coworkers down a peg; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Immigrant, Slave. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 110 gp.