Description: This southern man's face is deformed and paralyzed on one side. As such, he slurs his words together. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull white iron scale mail. He wears his red hair up in a very large beehive style do. He has gleaming, smiling blue eyes.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. He moved out west to avoid the crime he committed. He has been a successful dealer in antiques buying low and selling high.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Persistence, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Fearful. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Speaks like tongue is numb

Possessions: 1100 gp. Amethyst (150 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Black pearl (300 gp). Black pearl (300 gp).

Description: This western man is abnormally tall. He wears a lot of dark rich colors, with gold accents. His whole body is exceptionally muscular. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the right. He has several tiny emerald earrings on each ear.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: When he was but 8 years old his parents immigrated from the west. 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 was granted psionic powers by his dying brother.

Motivation: He uses money and sex appeal to get what he needs; and he has money and likes to spend it

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant, Rich. Occupation: Barkeep

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 400 gp.

Description: This man dresses in white turtlenecks beneath a grey coat with brown slacks, and sports empty pouches on his belt. His chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. His hazel eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Aggressive, abrasive, and angry, Ghash embodies much of what other species detest in the Half-Orcs. He cannot deal with unfamiliar people for more than a few minutes at a time and if they persist he will grow angry at them.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His parents divorced when he was young, and his father gained full cudstody. He was regularly beaten by his father, who blamed him for driving them apart. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is greedy

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 500 pp. Silver comb with moonstones (400 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (100 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears just a pastel suit. His cinnamon fur, when down, is lengthy. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He refers to his adoptive father for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. 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. Three fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: His spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Joker, Fighting. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Engraver

Voice: Puts emphasis on the wrong words

Possessions: 1900 gp. A pair of silk slippers encrusted with tiny pearls. (150 gp).