Description: 6'4" and muscular, this southern man wears tattered old clothes. He wears his red hair up. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: John was raised in a hard working conservative environment. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Stableman. He's also a talented Glassblower, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Job. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 20 pp. Aquamarine (1600 gp). Smoky quartz (40 gp). Red-brown spinel (100 gp). Deep blue spinel (1600 gp).

Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. His brown hair and beard is wavy and long. His brown eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He is extraordinarily eccentric. He can't help but pocket interesting objects he comes across

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the south. 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 wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Flaws: Insane, Greedy. Bonds: Criminal record, Poor, Adventurer. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 80 pp. Golden yellow topaz (1500 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: She wears many layers of old clothing at all times. She is physically well-built. Her feathered hat is riddled with cuts and holes. Her eyes are brown and catlike.

Personality: She is filled with cunning. She likes to feign weakness letting people think she is weak. She will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: When she was but 3 years old her parents immigrated from the west. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father gained full cudstody. She was regularly beaten by her father, who blamed her for driving them apart. She was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Australian accent

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: An older man who wears brown leather gloves, a brown jacket, and tight pants, he is not a threatening figure. He wears his black hair up in a very large beehive style do. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.

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. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Crown-heir arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He leaves a trail of broken hearts and full pockets wherever he goes.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Persistence, Philantrophist. Bonds: Attractive, Rich, Nature. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Adds syll-ab-les for em-pha-sis

Possessions: 400 gp. Deep blue spinel (500 gp).