Description: He is lean but muscular and wears a grey costume with the symbols of the four houses of cards on his torso. His red hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: Always inclined to offer people food he seems plenty friendly. He is used to getting what he wants. In part because he is a meticulous planner.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the island 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 island due to the painful memories there. Aldous took refuge in the ruined castle and found the beat up flail and armor he uses now. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life.

Ideals: Philantrophist, Professionalism. Flaws: Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 90 gp. 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: Dark and lean, he is a relatively plain man. He typically wears a sleeveless long coat of deep violet leather and dull green iron scale mail. He keeps his auburn hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are hazel and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Apothecary born in the past three hundred years. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. Chay was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Chay decided he wanted neither the life of his father nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Being a Apothecary kept his interest for a while, but then he became depressed and bored. So he turned to a secret life of crime, taking increasingly more risks and challenges.

Motivation: To be a Merchant again.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 500 pp.

Description: This slender man stands about 5'6". He likes to wear grey tank tops with brown pants. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He was born in a small island village. There was a wharf not far from home where he often wandered off to fish. Due to his spouse's obsession with being a Guard they were divorced and he won custody of their daughter. He worked as a Shipwright, and he later adopted a second daughter.

Motivation: He is greedy; and an old rival family wants him found

Ideals: Optimist. Flaws: Sensitive. Bonds: Nature, Family, Rich. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 60 gp. 4 Smokesticks.

Description: He wears a large hat to cast shadows over his face and wears ponchos to better hide his body. He carries with him a set of halberds on his belt, each one with a ruby on the hilt. His hair, while still mostly red, has prominent grey streaks. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are brown.

Personality: He fancies himself a trickster and likes to rely on his wits to carry the day. He cares for his older siblings and likes to be recognized by them. Zûmug enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. In his 17th year, his parents were killed by a gnolls raid, leaving Zûmug alone in the world. After a stint in an orphanage, he was adopted. Recently a tribe of gnolls attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Zûmug fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever.

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Family, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Pronounces O like U

Possessions: 110 pp.