Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a perfectly clean shirt and pair of pants. His brown hair is braided into rings. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He acts crazy and hedonistic. He is fiercely devoted to his mother, and views his mother's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-sister.

History: Conrad lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He found a children's book about a Human Paladin who fought for good and justice and never realised it was just a child's story. He modeled his life after the story, seeing himself destined a hero. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Family, Adventurer. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 400 gp. Golden yellow topaz (1200 gp). Red-brown spinel (150 gp). Carnelian (50 gp).

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. She prefers to wear fine silks, though has several suits of combat armor for her hunting needs. She has slicked back red hair. She has gleaming, smiling brown eyes.

Personality: She goes out her way to put a smile on everyone's face. There's no-one she won't accept into her heart. Hugolina enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for her love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. She sought a place where she would be rewarded solely on the merits of her skills. This search led her directly into Cartwright work with an outfit from a few towns over. Cartwright work suited her well, and with each successful project, she earned more gold and more respect from her peers. She tends to her Cartwright job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations she has.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Pronounces 'its' and 'is' like 'eats' and 'ease'

Possessions: Brass mug with jade inlays (600 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (160 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (160 gp). Old masterpiece painting (700 gp).

Description: 4'9" and muscular, this eastern woman wears a fine chain shirt which she covers with green colored cloaks and clothing. Her tied-back hair is brown. She wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: She is fixated on the number 5. She counts her steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. She seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. Despite her manner, she is extremely passionate and proud of her job, and she prides herself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: She was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. When the war came and ruined her parents she was left adrift. She was a hard woman then and has only learned to fight more as time goes on. She has worked as a Courier like her mother before her.

Motivation: She is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally; and balancing her hectic life and new courier responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Insane, PTSD. Bonds: Job, Poor. Occupation: Courier

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 30 pp. A detailed rose, with petals and thorns, constructed of silver and electrum (100 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp).

Description: This malnourished man wears tattered old clothes. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Wymar was born the youngest of three triplets. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 200 gp.