Description: He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with white lining and desert motifs. He is portly but not overly obese. His black hair is thinning but still full. His eyes are white.

Personality: He is a jovial happy person, but he is convinced people are living their lives too quickly. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Sold as a small child to a slaver, Abad was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: He is wracked by social anxiety; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: He wears a well pressed and immaculate suit (or dress). His skin is fair and his fingers are delicate and long. He sports a flattop hair cut. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: A grumpy guy he will invite people to lunch so he can critique them. Yet he still seems generally likeable, like a lovable grump. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his father. Being born in the east, 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 east 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: Retire the richest man in the east; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 370 pp. Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (1500 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (800 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (4000 gp).

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He dresses like a well dressed Animal Trainer does. His brass crest has been sun bleached extensively. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. 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: Born the oldest of a large religious western family, he was no stranger to responsibility. Cursed with a spirit at a very young age, Gargax has worked very hard to control his curse. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Regain custody of his daughter; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Family, Religious. Occupation: Animal Trainer

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 500 gp. Amber (100 gp). Jet (100 gp). Rose (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'10" when asserting himself. He has dyed his greying cinnamon fur a little too much giving a sharp cinnamon color. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. Despite his manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, and he prides himself in being thorough and never missing a detail.

History: Flask hails from a village terrorized by orcs. His parents died when he was young, and he was unceremoniously dumped in the city orphanage. Flask grew up in the orphanage, tormented by the older kids and famished from lack of food. To avoid death by starvation, most orphans take to a life of crime or prostitution (often both), and so did Flask. He tends to his Miner job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: His name or reputation has been wronged in the past by orcs, and he desires to right it; and many orcs want him driven away

Ideals: Professionalism. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Enemies, Criminal record. Occupation: Miner

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 1000 cp. Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (600 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (500 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (300 gp).