Description: This late middle aged man tends to wear a large tan jacket and is in decent physical shape. His brown hair has been sun bleached extensively. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. Gerard enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: His necromantic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. Ostracized due to the necromantic powers of his oldest sister, he and his siblings struck out on their own. In the process these unassuming Humans became a terror of the countryside. 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; and revenge

Ideals: Artistic, Gifted, Logical. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 200 gp. Lapis lazuli (5 gp). Sard (80 gp). Deep blue spinel (1300 gp).

Description: This man wears bulky blue painted plate armor. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a long white beard with little hanging trinkets. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: A rambunctious noisy drunk he knows how to make people feel guilty. Flattery will make him almost putty in your hands.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Ernest was orphaned to a temple shortly after his birth. He was raised by the temple staff to care always for others above himself and to hold his god always in his heart. 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 a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions.

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Depressed, Selfish. Bonds: Rich, Religious. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 800 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This woman is bedraggled and starved. She wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. She keeps her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Her skin is flawless and her hazel eyes scan people very quickly.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She feeds upon the attention of others.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. Her mother was a mechanic, and taught her how to fix just about anything. She has gone from town to town working and never settling down anywhere, but has fallen for a local Fisher. She hasn't told them the truth, but wants to settle down with them.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job; and to be a fisher again

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Has a crush, Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 500 gp.

Description: A middle-aged woman, she wears a large hat to cast shadows over her face and wears ponchos to better hide her body, and is pretty ugly. She has slicked back golden hair. Her blue eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food she seems plenty friendly. She is cautious and jumpy. She reacts to every sound and lacks any concept of subtlety.

History: Sybil was born the youngest of three triplets. Through the years after Sybil was born, her mother became increasingly distant from her family, instead choosing to pursue power in the north. Sybil's mother didn't care for her much, and the feeling was mutual. She has since lost track of the people in her past.

Motivation: She's repulsed by the PC; and her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 600 gp.