Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time. With a patchy chestnut beard and wild chestnut hair. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He is cool and collected. He likes to make quips and puns whenever he does anything. He also makes a point to compliment his superiors and flatter them. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Disciplined, Gifted, Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 1 Masterwork manacles.

Description: This fat eastern man has a bulbous nose and wears pastel leather gloves, a pastel jacket, and tight pants. His skin is also unnaturally pale. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His eyes are gray.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 24. He counts his steps and bites of food to keep in track with it. He seems to be used to being ignored and not questioned about it. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. He was granted druidic powers by his dying sister.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world.

Ideals: Logical, Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Insane. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 240 pp. Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp). An elaborate, whalebone scrimshaw carving of intertwined orbs, each showing the legend of creation story (20 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (3000 gp). Silver ewer (20 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (300 gp).

Description: He is wearing a long, grey cloak. He is portly but not overly obese. His black hair is well kept and his bushy mustache is tapered upwards at the ends. His amber eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: Stoic and calm, he prefers to meditate than take action. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Lance grew up listening to his mother's many stories. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the plains to a summer home near a ruined castle. He would wander through that ruined castle and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the plains due to the painful memories there. Lance took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up sai and armor he uses now. Lacking all sense, he decided to go on an adventure. He picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: He's looking for his big break.

Ideals: Disciplined, Artistic. Bonds: Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He is wearing dark clothing and a heavy breastplate, keeping many of his physical features obscured. He sports a flattop crest cut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are red.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He is a big fan of imagination and believes people should spend more time reading and writing.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He loathes his own lifestyle; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Joker, Logical. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Dyer

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 50 pp. Aquamarine (500 gp). Alexandrite (500 gp). Aquamarine (500 gp). 1 Minor magic item.