Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized blue coat. His hair, while still mostly white, has prominent grey streaks. His blue eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. When Don reached his early adolescence his Human mother passed away. Feeling disconnected from the small nearby village afterwards, he decided to travel. His rounds led him into the Army with a few individuals who would become his life-long companions. 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 is greedy; and many gnolls want him driven away

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich, Military. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 200 gp. Pink pearl (60 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears silk and lounges about seductively. With a patchy golden beard and wild golden hair. He has blue eyes.

Personality: A skeptical and narcissistic man, Kyle's first love is himself. His second love is also himself. He spends most of his days drinking in the Inn, the rowdiest and most dangerous establishment in town. There he gambles, wrestles and listens to stories told by travelers.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He has drifted apart from his friends and has been working freelance. Each gave each other a copy of their signature pickaxe.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Religious. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: 600 gp. Blue quartz (15 gp). Deep green spinel (140 gp). Coral (140 gp).

Description: She has a large brown mantle and cape that has been intricately interwoven into her black robe. She has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. Her hair is black and curly. This gray eyed southerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: She has schizophrenia that causes her to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. She is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: Born in the south to a Guard, Williamina learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. Like her father and her sister before her, after school she went straight into learning to become a Guard. She eventually got the idea of being the protector of her homeland from reading books, and has made it her duty.

Motivation: She is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get her out; and to be a carter again

Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Military, Job, Guardian, Slave. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 100 gp. Pink pearl (150 gp). Brown-green garnet (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (13 gp). Coral (150 gp).

Description: A stocky darker skinned woman, she is dressed in a clean brown cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her silver hair is cut jaggedly and amateurishly. She has gray eyes.

Personality: She is extraordinarily passive and rarely speaks, let alone speaks her mind. She is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure she is not cheated out of a speck.

History: She comes from a rich southern family. She helped her mother out around the business and became quite the natural. She has worked as a Servant like her mother before her.

Motivation: She doesn't get along with people that don't share her tastes; and nothing but the best is good enough for her

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Impeccable. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 600 gp. Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (30 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.