Description: With black face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he wears a black shirt with thin white vertical stripes and black pants. He has a long red beard with little hanging trinkets. His hazel eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: Born in the south to a Adventurer, Alex learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He was an apprentice working in his father's forge. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Adventurer responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 800 gp. Rock crystal (50 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This exceptionally lanky woman wears a worn and beaten armor. Her blonde hair is knotted and matted. Her face is scarred and worn.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with dancing. She constantly tries to fill her life with dancing. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: Her history is one of pain. She was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves her parents kept. She went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. She has never given up on her dancing dream.

Motivation: Wants to raise her children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of her brother

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family, Slave, Religious. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 6000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: He stands about 5'3" and wears tattered old clothes. His left leg appears badly burned and disfigured. He has wavy silver hair. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are gray.

Personality: His voice, at times compared to that of a Nymph, lambasts those who consider themselves "civilized" with snide, belittling remarks; the subtle growl he speaks with growing louder in doing so, one can find it most pronounced, despite the otherwise natural purity of his tone. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: He was born a particularly ugly child, much to the horror of his parents. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac.

Ideals: Professionalism, Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Cynical. Occupation: Detective

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

Possessions: 20000 cp. Amber (120 gp). Freshwater pearl (8 gp). Emerald (700 gp).

Description: She is a woman of bearing and well nourished. She has the majority of her body covered in plate. Her auburn hair is singed and shortened. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She shows great sympathy to all travelers. She's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. Elysande is a bit of a follower. Usually she is manipulated by her sisters into helping them out, but recently she has become more of a free agent.

History: Elysande lived on a farm with her mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the south, 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 south 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 east. She used her abilities to travel the world and help people.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Miner and was forced into it by her family; and wants to raise her children well

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 10000 cp.