Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his longsword with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is physically well-built. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His eyes are amber and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Alex was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He tends to his Barkeep job now, and dutifully fulfills any obligations he has.

Motivation: Wants his loneliness to end; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Has a crush. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This man wears loose pants and a collared shirt complete with sweater beneath his coat, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His head has been shaved. His eyes are blue and beady.

Personality: He has always had a great fascination with Dwarven culture. He has a cruel streak; something he gained from his previous mentor. He harbors resentment against his former mentor.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Bowyer arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. 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: Money/treasure.

Flaws: Ugly, Racist, Antagonistic. Bonds: Mentor, Rich. Occupation: Bowyer

Voice: Booming voice

Possessions: 14000 cp. Fiery yellow corundum (1100 gp).

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He wears baggy yellow pantaloons and a black scarf. His bronze crest is drawn into a tight pony tail with a skull scrunchie. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: Born to a Beggar, his mother struggled to pay the bills. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 5 years.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Fortune-teller

Voice: Smooth and feminine

Possessions: 500 gp. Aquamarine (1000 gp). Rich purple corundum (1000 gp). Onyx (40 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He wears rags and sports a simple walking cane. He has blonde hair. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes orcs are coming to abduct people. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born in the east. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to orcs demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Many orcs want him driven away.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Athletic. Flaws: Insomniac. Bonds: Poor, Enemies, Immigrant. Occupation: Bellfounder

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 700 gp. Red spinel (160 gp). Jet (160 gp). Deep blue spinel (400 gp). White opal (1000 gp).