Description: This late middle aged man wears a weathered and beat up set of banded mail beneath an oversized yellow coat and is in decent physical shape. He has shaved his head bald. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are white and perfect.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Miner arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. 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 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.

Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive, Guardian, Rich. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 100 gp. 1 Darkwood Buckler. 1 Full Plate.

Description: He wears white robes with leather pauldrons. Though occasionally he wears more armor. He prefers to carry a morningstar, but if one is not available he will default to his greatsword. His silver hair is braided into rings. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. To his fellows he is seen as friendly and intelligent, but is angry and unforgiving to the so called fatcats and any who do and have associated with them.

History: Geoffrey was born the youngest of three triplets. In his 13th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Geoffrey alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. 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: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister.

Ideals: Pacifist. Bonds: Rich, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: 700 gp. Zircon (60 gp). Silver pearl (160 gp).

Description: This exceptionally lanky man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty black coat over it. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. Manfred 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 blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. Being born in the west, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the west for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way south. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Ugly, Insane, Disease. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 200 gp. Coral (60 gp). 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Masterwork studded leather. 1 Breastplate. 1 Full Plate.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather, and is pretty ugly. His long black hair is drawn into a two foot long braid. His brown eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: He was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for him. It may also be what makes him so good at details. Cursed with unlife at a very young age, Trey has worked very hard to control his curse. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Ugly, Lazy, Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 600 gp.