Description: He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He is a melancholic, but persistent worker. He resents family life and as such spurns the advances of admirers. He is a logical person and will generally grow upset if things defy logic and science.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Depressed. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 160 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man usually wears his black robe and has his dagger always slung over his shoulder. He wears a deerstalker hat to hide his balding. His half smiles and blue eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and he wants revenge against brigands

Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Adventurer, Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 200 sp.

Description: A man with a warm, jovial air about him, he wears a robe, a symbol of his god around his neck, and a lance on his belt. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC.

Ideals: Fighting, Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Mundane. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 400 sp.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. His brown hair is smooth and relatively long. He has a tattooed face.

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 lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Rich. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 4 Tanglefoot bags.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a sweet of some kind. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized tan coat, marred by sweets. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Gnome in existence. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Pallabar was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he's repulsed by the pc

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Actor

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This slender man stands about 6'2". He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. His auburn hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken his opponents. Despite his formidable combat skills he remains a coward. Only to laugh say gotcha and shoot double pistol fingers at the fooled target.

History: Peter lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the east, 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 east 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 west. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk.

Ideals: Fighting, Joker. Bonds: Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: Jade (80 gp).

Description: She is a small woman, but exceptionally fit. She is wearing a long, red cloak. Her head has been shaved. Her face possesses mild wrinkles. Her smile is extraordinarily sincere though she does not smile often.

Personality: She likes to brag about her accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. More though she will beg to come along on any journeys. She will attempt to stowaway on any ship she can in the hopes that it will get her further away.

History: Pearl was born into a poor family. Growing up, she dreamt of becoming a Sorcerer, to bring honor to her family’s name. When she came of age, she applied for a position with her town's local guard, looking to work her way up via merit and eventually become a Sorcerer in service of a powerful lord somewhere. Pearl abandoned her home at a very young age, living in the fields and plains. She survived everyday through hunting and stealing from passersby. She did whatever it took for her to survive. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Meet up once more with her childhood friend; and she's looking for her big break

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Slave, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 60 gp.

Description: This woman is tall and muscular. She wears dark leathers with embroidery. With bright red hair. She has a dull look in her green eyes.

Personality: She believes mankind has become decadent and spoiled by the march of civilization and an end should come to life as we know it. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She got into the Herbalist business at a young age. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She has recently attracted an admirer that believes she's playing hard to get.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic, Artistic. Bonds: Nature, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 2000 cp. Azurite (11 gp).

Description: His right thumb is blackened and bruised, but otherwise he appears quite healthy. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His white hair is singed and shortened. His red eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born into a rich family. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Religious, Rich. Occupation: Unemployed

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: Just what you see.