Description: He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized red coat. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His black hair is long and unkept. He is baby faced.

Personality: This man loves painting and to teach people painting more than just about anything. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Stableman arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 3000 cp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This dark-skinned male is dressed in a clean white cloak covering his clean studded leather. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. He is bald on top and has large red tufts of hair around his ears. His gray eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. A serious injury left his mother unemployed and in need of constant care. His family became saddled with debt trying to care for his infirm mother. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: He desires power and/or immortality; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military, Debt. Occupation: Fletcher

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 40 gp. An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (130 gp).

Description: This western woman is abnormally tall. She wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. Her whole body is exceptionally muscular. Her brown hair is smooth and relatively long. She tend to wears goggles to shield her eyes.

Personality: She hates dire rats. She views them as having robbed her home of its proper glory. A true patriot, Tawar would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Tawar 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. When Tawar reached her early adolescence her Half-Orc father passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, she decided to travel. Her rounds led her into the Army with a few individuals who would become her life-long companions. She has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to dire rats demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Obtaining odd cultural Tiefling artifacts is her passion.

Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Military, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (900 gp). Blue quartz (14 gp).

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears a tattered pair of loose black pants, a matching torn shirt, and a visible pair of similar condition same color briefs. He has rusty crest. His red eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. 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: Patrin was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. He always admired arcane-users and wanted to develop the talent, but never had the affinity for it. He has recently gotten a pet goose that steals things from people.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. if successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Criminal record, Immigrant. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 500 sp. Peridot (80 gp). 1 Smokesticks.

Description: She is well dressed, constantly wearing a white suit, violet shirt, and grey tie. She is physically well-built. Her golden hair is long and unkept. She has a dull look in her brown eyes.

Personality: Calm and collected, she is a well trained Bounty Hunter. She uses her nature as a weapon; she likes to lead opponents to think her in distress.

History: Gifted from a young age, Engong studied abroad. Her spouse left her for another, whom she beat to an almost bloody pulp. She did not win them back, but she came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. She has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: To be a Shepherd again; and balancing her hectic life and new bounty hunter responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bounty Hunter

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 100 sp. Azurite (6 gp).

Description: With grey face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is well dressed, but even with his fine clothing he looks run-down. His broad hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. He works hard and plays hard.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Optimist, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Ums and uhs a lot

Possessions: 2000 cp. Silver pearl (60 gp). 1 Superior lock.

Description: She is an exceptionally muscular looking northern young adult. She wears long strands of jet and short pastel dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. Beneath her clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. Her fur is greying and her face has many wrinkles. Her eyes, though not visible through her cowl, are hazel.

Personality: Stoic and calm, she prefers to meditate than take action. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Weaver but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: She grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. She was married off to the eldest child of a minor noble. Her spouse died of illness and she inherited everything. She knows her nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but her.

Motivation: She is greedy.

Ideals: Disciplined, Pacifist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Rich, Slave. Occupation: Weaver

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: This woman wears green painted combat armor at almost all times, and sports empty pouches on her belt. Her black hair is smooth and relatively long. Her eyes are gold and she is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. The war was a terrible time for her, and Purah does not often speak of it. When she does, she does so with a strained expression and tears in her eyes.

History: From birth she was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. She graduated from the Naval Academy and went to see the world at the rank of Ensign. She advanced relatively quickly due to her good work ethic, understanding of the chain of command, and natural leadership ability. She remains aloof and afraid to be herself due to all the ideals others have placed upon her.

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

Flaws: Shy, Depressed. Bonds: Military, Mentor. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 600 sp. 1 Thunderstones.

Description: He is perpetually draped in fineries, but all of this concealed by his earthly robes.. He carries with him a set of shields on his belt, each one with a sapphire on the hilt. His silver hair is still thick. He has several tiny sapphire earrings on each ear.

Personality: He does not believe in betrayal or weakness as things to be tolerated. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. His first spouse was a Guard, they had one daughter, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Fighting, Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Family. Occupation: Marshal

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 80 pp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). 1 Simple lock.