Description: This younger middle-aged man dresses like a well dressed Bookbinder does, and a wedding ring on his left hand. His chestnut hair is cut short with large spiked bangs in the front. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: He was born at the edge of vast island. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Bookbinder. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Bookbinder for hire.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Job, In love, Religious, Nature. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Spits words with contempt

Possessions: 160 gp. Chrysoberyl (40 gp).

Description: He is a man of bearing and well nourished. He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His brown hair is matted, messy, and big. He has several tiny topaz earrings on each ear.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. As long as the job gets done he does not care how it got done.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He is greedy.

Ideals: Gifted, Professionalism. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 90 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is tall and muscular. He is dressed in a clean black cloak covering his clean studded leather. His black hair is long and unkept. His eyes are violet and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 36. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He has the money to obtain near anything and knows that if you pay a man enough he will sell his own mother. Money is his most trusted friend.

History: Pikar lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: To unite with his sister.

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Nasally tone

Possessions: 4000 sp.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His brass crest is lengthy. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. He is frequently practicing swordplay.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. His spouse left him for another, whom he beat to an almost bloody pulp. He did not win them back, but he came to a realization. To get what you want from life, you must take it. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and retire the richest man in the east

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Military, Poor. Occupation: Sailor

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 3000 gp. A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (700 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1400 gp). A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (10 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1200 gp). 1 Minor magic item.