Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his flail with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his long black hair kept up in a rat tail. His face is covered beneath a completely black helmet.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes brigands are coming to abduct people. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his poetry with anyone who is interested.

History: Zephan was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. He has had some formal poetry training, and achieved minor success. He has taken up leadership of the village's small militia in response to brigands demanding more tribute than usual.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage.

Ideals: Artistic, Persistence. Bonds: Enemies, Family. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 70 pp. Alexandrite (1100 gp). Rock crystal (70 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1100 gp).

Description: This man stands a little under 5'5" and is a bit bulky. He is very muscular particularly in the legs. He wears a simple grey robe with tan stripes complete with hood. His black hair is lengthy. His violet eyes are desperate and heavily dilated. He has the appearance of someone under the heavy influence of drugs.

Personality: He is shy and timid. He has not had much interaction with people and is skittish around them. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family Over the years he perfected his riding and shooting skills. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Addict, Shy. Bonds: Criminal record, Nature. Occupation: Seamstress

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 80 gp. 1 Chain shirt.

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He is wearing a long, brown, dusty cloak. He has wavy silver hair. His eyes are a pleasant gray.

Personality: In the realm of puns, he cannot help himself. He feels obliged to make them. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: His arcane talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. Unlike his family, who was content to work in a sleepy main town, he wanted to work in the city. He has been working here for the past few years.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and to end his boredom

Ideals: Joker, Gifted, Athletic, Optimist. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Miller

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A man with a friendly, welcoming air about him, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. He wears his brown hair down. His violet eyes dart from person to person to random spaces in the air.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, he was no stranger to responsibility. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Athletic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Family, Religious. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Voice breaks

Possessions: 200 pp. Violet garnet (700 gp). Black pearl (700 gp). Violet garnet (700 gp). Black star sapphire (1100 gp). Malachite (6 gp). Zircon (20 gp).