Description: This man is very fat, and wears many layers of old clothing at all times. He sports a long auburn beard, and similarly colored long hair. His gray eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: Born in the north to a Farmer, Shane learned a great deal about his mother's area of expertise. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his mother, who blamed him for driving them apart. He got away from his former life and has fallen to alcoholism.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Mentor, Job. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: 5000 sp. Azurite (12 gp).

Description: A woman of a pale complexion, she wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath her coat. Her hair is greying and her face has many wrinkles. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She is business-like. She takes instructions and follows them to the letter. A true patriot, Oriel would do anything for her country. She is fiercely protective of her fellow citizens and foreign allies.

History: Born in a small village she learned the ways of the warrior from her father. A gifted student she started as a Bather, but she got bored and became a Mason. She has gone from town to town till she finds a spot where she can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: Her spouse's relatives view her with great suspicion; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Professionalism, Fighting. Bonds: Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Mason

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 100 gp. Blue quartz (9 gp).

Description: This man is very fat, and wears a grey cloak and cross-gartered pastel stockings. His white hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: Nicholas hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his music career. 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 born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. Being a Stableman kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Forgetful. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: An older woman who dresses in yellow turtlenecks beneath a red coat with blue slacks, she is not a threatening figure. She wears a colorful flower in her white hair. She has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: She believes there is no problem she cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. She is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: When she was but 5 years old her parents immigrated from the north. Since her mother passed away years ago, her father had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. One night she noticed a nearby shooting star which she hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. She has done her darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Persistence, Fighting. Flaws: Selfish. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 5000 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Common Melee. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.