Description: This man wears a tan feathered hat and tan clothes. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy blonde hair. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Bertram enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. He was an apprentice working in his mother's forge. 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: Wants to raise his children well; and find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Disease, Hedonist. Bonds: Rich, Job, Family. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Hissing voice

Possessions: 7000 cp. Obsidian (10 gp).

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what he was had he not made sure his armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit he wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty red coat over it. His black hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His ears are large.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: Alberich was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Scribe and found it very stressful. He has gone from town to town till he finds a spot where he can set up a sustainable business.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Pacifist. Flaws: Ugly, Addict. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: This southern man is abnormally tall. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. His head has been shaved. He has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. He wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: He resents people who mock his appearance or him, so he has learned to be the meanest son of a gun. He is a great chef.

History: He was born at the edge of vast mountains. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he would like to get married and retire

Ideals: Gifted, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears a blue shirt, with a tan mid length shorts with tan tights and flats, usually wearing a coat over them. His white hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. His hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: He likes to make people angry or surprised. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born in the north. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and he's repulsed by the pc

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic. Bonds: Military, Immigrant, Nature. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Eastern European accent

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (400 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). Silver comb with moonstones (200 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (140 gp).