Description: This slender man stands about 4'1". He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. He has no hair. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep green.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. He is a thrill seeker, he laughs at people and throws down challenges. He is highly competitive and combative.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Baern grew up listening to his father's many stories. His father worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled father and took his father's old job. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: Relatively heavier built than your average man, he is not imposing. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His hair is long and black with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small white clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His blue eyes peer out from beneath his top white hat.

Personality: While he is on the job, he is grim and serious. He understands how dangerous the world is and the need to stay safe. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Being a Mayor 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 feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Criminal record, Military, Religious, Slave. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with green lining and desert motifs. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has wavy dark red hair. His eyes are gold.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, he has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: He was raised in a desert tribe. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature, Mentor. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 380 gp. Citrine (40 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: This western woman tends to wear a large brown jacket. Her clothes are grease stained in places. Her brown hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has brown eyes and a brown hat with a green feather.

Personality: Aside from being a little slow due to sleep deprivation she is generally quite perceptive. She notices little details and can draw good conclusions from them. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when brigands swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. Rosamund was born on a far western forest where she grew up under the tutelage of her father, an expert Body Guard. She hasn't been sleeping well lately.

Motivation: Revenge; and several ex partners dislike her way of doing things and want revenge

Flaws: Insomniac, Selfish. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. He has dyed his greying blonde hair a little too much giving a sharp blonde color. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep brown.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. 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, Alex is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Slave Trader arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 10 years.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Adventurer, Rich, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: She is a mite stocky and wears long strands of ruby and short brown dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths. She keeps her chestnut hair in a flapper bob. She has green eyes and a brown hat with a grey feather.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She is however nostalgic and wants to reunite with her old comrades. She has some compunction and patriotism and will work for the government before all other clients.

History: She got into the Gardener business at a young age. Over the years she perfected her riding and shooting skills. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 4 years.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality.

Ideals: Fighting. Bonds: Rich, Adventurer, Job, Nature. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: Chalcedony (60 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she has a large violet mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her tan robe. Her red hair is matted, messy, and big. Her hazel eyes peer out from beneath her broad violet hat.

Personality: She is highly sensitive about her name. She loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. She has all her life been fascinated with painting.

History: She was born in the east, but her parents moved at a very young age to the north. She has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. She left for the east, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and expand her business

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Crown-heir

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

Possessions: 4000 cp.

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He wears a tight fitting green shirt and pants. His hair is red and very short. He has a dull look in his white eyes.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Cursed with vampirism at a very young age, Amnon has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Logical. Flaws: Impulsive, Disease. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This dark-skinned male is renowned for his bright black suits and hats. He is tall, broad shouldered and powerfully built. His auburn hair, when down, is lengthy. His eyes are amber and beady.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. A few years later when the south was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He's in love; and wants his loneliness to end

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Immigrant, Has a crush. Occupation: Fisher

Voice: German accent

Possessions: 500 sp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Half-Plate.