Description: This fat southern man has a bulbous nose and wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. His skin is also unnaturally pale. He wears a top hat to hide his balding. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady green eyes.

Personality: He has a very dry and sarcastic sense of humor. He is not one for noise or eating so much, which is in direct contrast with his big mouthed big gutted partner. His partner is his best friend in the world. The two are very close despite being more or less each other's opposites. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. He was one of the best in his class, and was picked up by his current employer. He quickly showed his capability and was soon promoted to a head role. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Assassin

Voice: Shortens vowels

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

Description: He is a pot bellied northern man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear flannel. His black hair is knotted and matted. His eyes are violet.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Efferil embodies much of what other species detest in the Elves. He believes the world needs to unite to get rid of gnolls once and for all.

History: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. A gifted student he started as a Soapmaker, but he got bored and became a Tanner. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to gnolls demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: Further expansion of business; and several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Enemies, Poor, Job. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Sighs a lot, exhausted

Possessions: 400 gp. Amber (150 gp).

Description: He wears dark leathers with embroidery. His chestnut hair, when down, is lengthy. His brown eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Since his mother passed away years ago, his father had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Wants to work out more often; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Attractive. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 340 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Tiger eye turquoise (7 gp). Blue sapphire (1200 gp). Red garnet (160 gp).

Description: He is an average looking northern male in his early mid-life. He wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with grey lining and desert motifs. He has done his best to style his white hair to look like a famous performer. 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 keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. From his teen years he was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on him. Some 5 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Balam never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: To reunite with his old friends; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, In love, Adventurer. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Laughs frequently while speaking

Possessions: Just what you see.