Description: This western man dresses in collared shirts and wears a proper scarf over his head. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has a black handlebar mustache and slicked back black hair. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He likes to be helpful to his clients. He likes to prescribe proper advice to his clients. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: Barendd was raised in a hard working conservative environment. Barendd was born on a far western desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Scribe. He has drifted from career to career and currently works as a Scribe.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Scribe responsibilities is difficult; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Scribe

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: Jade (70 gp). Citrine (70 gp). Rhodochrosite (9 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: He wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a scythe on his belt. His attire stands in sharp contrast to his scythe, which is beautifully polished and possesses an ornate carving of a skull on it. His hair is short and silver. His violet eyes lackadaisically let the world flow into them.

Personality: He is business-like. He takes instructions and follows them to the letter. He has a habit of throwing himself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: Raised by wardens he was only a novice when dire rats swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. His father was supposedly a charlatan fortune teller, but he insists his father was legitimate. Recently a tribe of dire rats attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Lucan fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by dire rats, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Carpenter

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 230 gp. Coral (80 gp). Jet (80 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, white cloak, and carries sais. His dark red hair is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the east. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born in the east to a Laborer, Oriax learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. His parents enrolled him in a Sorcerer school at a young age so that he could practice his druidic talents. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Laborer for the past few years.

Motivation: Further expansion of business.

Ideals: Fighting, Pacifist, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Selfish. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy chestnut stubble. He is dressed in earthy colors with a black and white handkerchief worn on his right side. He has a hunchback. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. His amber eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: He trusts no one. He is not readily capable for forgiveness and his ire never leaves him. He has a small toy that he constantly fidgets with.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent mother; and his relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Addict. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Sore throat, cough

Possessions: 800 sp.