Description: This malnourished man wears a simple yellow robe with red stripes complete with hood. He has a very tight haircut. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the west. He is a great chef.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He wants revenge against orcs.

Ideals: Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 6000 sp. Golden yellow topaz (800 gp). Black pearl (800 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: An older man who wears long strands of jet and short green dresses (or suits) accompanied by the proper stockings and shoes, with gloves of varying lengths, he is not a threatening figure. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His ears are large.

Personality: He never swears and excessively uses polite adverbs when speaking. He disdains his fellow southerners, claiming they make him look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Barakas grew up listening to his mother's many stories. Barakas was born on a far southern mountains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Bather. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and a need for knowledge about a nearby landmark

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Adventurer. Occupation: Bather

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 50000 cp. Deep blue spinel (1300 gp). Blue sapphire (600 gp). Amber (90 gp). Red spinel (90 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

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 is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. His black hair is cut short. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious northern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. In his youth he was part of a gang. He got caught, but did not rat out his comrades and served his time in prison. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and a rival would like him out of the picture

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Criminal record, Religious. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 2000 sp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He is wearing a long, brown cloak. He wears his brown hair up in a very large beehive style do. His hazel eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He is happy with his job as a Healer. He turns his eye from what people do, preferring to live and let live. His actions favor neither the good nor the evil, as he answers to a power that mortal men fail to acknowledge.

History: Laucian lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. Being born in the west, 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 west 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 north. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of philosophers.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Job, Religious, Family. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1800 gp. Banded agate (16 gp). Brown-green garnet (60 gp). Black pearl (400 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). White pearl (60 gp). Sardonyx (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Sard (70 gp). Aquamarine (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.