Description: He wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his axe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is portly but not overly obese. His hair is cut close to his head. He has gray eyes.

Personality: He misses his glory days as an athlete. He does not mind his job, but it is boring in comparison. He constantly seizes attention wherever he goes and has come to expect this respect from everyone. He likes to think of himself as merciful, but nonetheless is very strict.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was an athlete and attended two major summer competitions. He never won. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: He is a bit of a kleptomaniac; and he has decided he is irredeemable

Ideals: Athletic, Impeccable. Flaws: Secretive. Bonds: Military, Criminal record. Occupation: Butcher

Voice: Speaks through clenched teeth

Possessions: 20 gp.

Description: This western man wears a shirt that is too small, which lets his gut show, with a ratty grey coat over it. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His eyes are likewise hazel. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is kind towards other men and children and will generally offer men help without question. Others will generally need to prove themselves to him.

History: His parents moved while he was still in utero so he is the first generation to be born here. Aerdeth was born on a far western forest where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Slave Trader. He left for the west, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush.

Ideals: Joker, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Slave Trader

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 1600 sp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears bulky brown painted plate armor. His silver hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. This red eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He is quiet and anti-social and can barely make it a few minutes in conversation before his hampering stammer kicks in. He misses his home and complains about the freezing weather, even in summer.

History: Marbas was born in the west. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He then took over the family business and is one of the better Shipwright for hire.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Family. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Mousy voice

Possessions: 100 gp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 6'6" and wears a robe, a symbol of the four houses of cards around his neck, and a bastard sword on his belt. His hair is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His ears are large.

Personality: He likes to brag about his accomplishments and constantly tries to beat others to the punch. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his mother. Being born in the east, he completed his medical training abroad so as to avoid the war. He returned after the war having achieved medical proficiency. He was a general practitioner in the east for years, until he, through no fault of his own, lost a patient who had a very powerful family. Rather than risk reprisal he made his way west. By chance he met his brother recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well.

Ideals: Fighting, Passionate. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Roofer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 1000 gp. Solid gold idol (600 gp). Embroidered silk and velvet mantle with numerous moonstones (2300 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (700 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp).