Description: He dresses well, wearing pastel shirts, loose pants, and blazers most of the time, and he perpetually has his sword ready. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Miles was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Paladin, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Paladin in service of a powerful lord somewhere. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She is dressed in a clean white cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her golden hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a feathered hat. Her fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: Her tongue was cut out and she uses sign language. She is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of her. She is by nature obliging.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Katherine grew up listening to her father's many stories. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Adventurer. She hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure her.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and obtaining odd cultural human artifacts is her passion

Flaws: Disease, Shy, Greedy. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 800 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (400 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (400 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1300 gp). Black velvet mask with numerous citrines (140 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: 5'10" and muscular, this southern man is wearing a long, blue cloak. His white hair is thinning but still full. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: Born in the south to a Barber, Gerard learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Athletic, Optimist, Gifted. Bonds: Job, Rich, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A moderately attractive woman, she wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her brown hair is knotted and matted. Judging by the bloodshot nature of her eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine she has not slept for days.

Personality: She considers herself a woman of culture and sophistication. She likes a good challenge to her wits. She loves her children and doesn't want them to worry about her. She loves to share her music with anyone who is interested.

History: Ella lived on a farm with her father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, she completed her medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. She returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. She was a general practitioner in the west for years, until she, through no fault of her own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal she made her way north. She has never given up on her music dream.

Motivation: She feels the way she acts is they only way to get by in the world; and to get a good night's sleep

Ideals: Impeccable, Artistic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Family. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 700 gp. Aquamarine (1400 gp). Hematite (11 gp). Sardonyx (40 gp).