Description: This northern man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior. His clothes are grease stained in places. His chestnut hair is slicked back into a classic pompadour. His gold eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He has a good heart but also a terrible temper. He will forgive often but not before yelling and berating someone for whatever they have done wrong. Energy wise he seems alert and responsive.

History: Born to a Herbalist, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When he came of age, he joined a caravan that would eventually take him to the capital. He would practice along the way and, when he arrived, be apprenticed to a Cartwright. He struck the Cartwright job and began his own company from there.

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

Ideals: Fighting, Professionalism. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 6000 gp. Malachite (9 gp). Iolite (80 gp). Jade (140 gp). Rich purple corundum (1300 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

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. His golden hair is lengthy and is close to two feet long. His hazel unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is fixated on the number 1. 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. Soveliss enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. He helped his father out around the business and became quite the natural. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Insane, Hedonist. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Body Guard

Voice: Gruff and masculine

Possessions: 2300 sp. 1 Half-Plate. 1 Darkwood Buckler.

Description: He has a missing left leg. He wears a tan collared shirt and black pants. He accessorizes with a white scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His blonde hair is greying along the sides and has receded to reveal a widow's peak. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He seems absolutely devoid of it. He stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. He has no love for corruption and racketeering and views those as crimes of the highest magnitude.

History: Sold as a small child to a wizard, Arumawann was an assistant, and all too frequently test subject. He eventually earned his freedom when his former master disappeared. While he appears to be a normal Gnome, he's... not quite right. Perhaps he's slightly insane, or otherwise so mentally alien to the rest of the world that he plain doesn't fit in. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: To find somewhere to settle down; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Justice. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Mentor. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: Excited and jittery

Possessions: 100 gp. Red garnet (110 gp). 3 Acid flasks.

Description: His skin has the orange glow of too much sun. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His brown hair is thinning but still full. His thin eyebrows rest above his beady violet eyes.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is susceptible to being scared and is in actuality easily frightened. He likes to tell stories.

History: His mother raised him in a mountain cabin. He was a friend to animals and a trickster. In his defense of animals however he would do severe harm to people. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east.

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Shy, Fearful. Bonds: Nature. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Hard of hearing, loud

Possessions: 200 gp.

Description: He is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing green cape and mantle trimmed with soft blue waves gently in the breeze. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly daggers and warhammers. He wears a colorful flower in his silver hair. He has green eyes and a green hat with a blue feather.

Personality: He has schizophrenia that causes him to hear things that aren't there and will sometimes respond to them. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Vonbin was born with his father's beautiful face. He became part of the deadliest team of assassins in recent memory. A botched job caused the group to be disbanded. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: Seeks redemption; and money/treasure

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 1000 gp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (600 gp). Old masterpiece painting (600 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.