Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he wears an amalgamation of clothes and depending on the season will wear more layers of the continuing hodge podge. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He hates brigands. He views them as having robbed his home of its proper glory. He is obsessed with his god.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: He is greedy; and he has a rivalry with the church that dominates his actions

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Enemies, Religious, Military, Rich. Occupation: Junk Dealer

Voice: Speaks with lower jaw sticking out

Possessions: 3000 cp.

Description: He is scrawny and has patchy brown stubble. He wears a fine chain shirt which he covers with black colored cloaks and clothing. He has a hunchback. His wide-brimmed hat is riddled with cuts and holes. He has gleaming, smiling green eyes.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: Az-Adar was born to in a poor docking district. He spent his early days working in the same smith shop his mother was employed at, doing general labor. His arcane abilities were realized during a raid on his village. He remains aloof and afraid to be himself due to all the ideals others have placed upon him.

Motivation: His religion dominates his actions; and he feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Shy. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a pot bellied western man with a big hulking figure and broad shoulders. He prefers to wear red pants and tee shirts. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. He is baby faced.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Ruler profession.

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. Cursed with lycanthropy at a very young age, Patrick has worked very hard to control his curse. Recently a tribe of orcs attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Patrick fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and expand his business

Ideals: Athletic, Gifted, Fighting. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Scottish accent

Possessions: 6000 cp.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he is wearing a long, black cloak. He sports a flattop crest cut. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: He was born in the west, but his parents moved at a very young age to the north. Shamash liked to wander the woods near his home when he was young, something he still likes to do at least once a week. He never liked modest clothing or shoes, so he would wander the woods barefoot and lightly dressed, and he developed a good sense of balance and learned how to climb and swim well. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and balancing his hectic life and new spice merchant responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Nature, Job. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Complex vocabulary, royal

Possessions: 1200 gp. Fiery yellow corundum (400 gp). Violet garnet (500 gp). Peridot (50 gp). Black opal (400 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.