Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears just a red suit. His auburn hair is still thick. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He hates gnolls. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is terrible with names forgetting people's names several times before they finally stick; this causes him no end of embarrassment.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful, Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: She wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. She has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. Her silver hair is wavy and long. Her violet eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. A true patriot, Joan would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: She was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Her homeland was ravaged by war and she spent much of her life rebuilding it. She has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: Retire the richest woman in the east; and seeks redemption

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Disciplined. Flaws: PTSD. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 40000 cp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is wearing a long, yellow, dusty cloak. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly scythes and rapiers. He sports a long black beard, and similarly colored long hair. He has several tiny opal earrings on each ear.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. Dean is a bit of a follower. Usually he is manipulated by his sisters into helping them out, but recently he has become more of a free agent.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has never given up on his poetry dream.

Motivation: An old rival family wants him found; and he is greedy

Ideals: Joker, Artistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich, Family, Slave. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He carries with him a set of flails, each one with a amethyst on the hilt. He only wears one on his belt and the other on his back. His tied-back hair is auburn. This gray eyed easterner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not mind isolation but does not hate company and attempts to receive them as best as possible.

History: When he was but 4 years old his parents immigrated from the east. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting, Extrovert, Athletic. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: White opal (1500 gp).