Description: 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 bronze crest is singed and shortened. His gold unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is erratic and paranoid. He believes giants are coming to abduct people. He is accommodating to his spouse and as such limits his hospitality. He is brave and levelheaded in the face of danger and has proven himself a capable leader.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. His parents were killed by giants in a raid when he was still a young child. The giants captured him, and made him a slave and general play-thing. He was beaten and tortured regularly, leading to his deformed appearance. Some 3 years later his spouse died after the birth of his daughter. Heartbroken, Kerkad never married again. Instead he focused his life to raising his daughter whom he trained as his father had trained him before.

Motivation: Wishes to resurrect an old love; and he has money and likes to spend it

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Enemies, In love, Rich. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 1000 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He sports brown clothing, slightly heavier than average wear. He has dyed his greying red hair a little too much giving a sharp red color. He is baby faced.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. 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 north. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He is content; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Secretive, Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Family. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: A 5'2" eastern man, he wears a green vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His black leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his green boots flare out at the collars. He has brown hair. His fair skin shows little sign of his aristocratic breeding.

Personality: A deeply religious man he believes everything happens for a reason. He never wears the same outfit twice, unless he absolutely has to.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. While studying, he fell in love. They married and had a son. He has since married many spouses, only to have them die. He claims to not be responsible.

Motivation: He is compelled to act according to his religious beliefs.

Ideals: Artistic. Bonds: Attractive, Religious, Mentor, In love. Occupation: Bookbinder

Voice: Raspy

Possessions: 200 gp. Zircon (30 gp). Moss agate (16 gp). Eye agate (16 gp). Rhodochrosite (16 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A well shaped man just over fifty, he has the majority of his body covered in plate. He sports a flattop hair cut. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Painter born in the past three hundred years. He invented a lineage for himself and claims to be descended from several legendary heroes.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. Like his mother and his sister before him, after school he went straight into learning to become a Painter. He has became unsatisfied with his lot in life, and decided to take up adventuring.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Painter

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: 10000 cp. 1 Masterwork Thieves’ tools.

Description: He is a small man, but exceptionally fit. He wears a black feathered hat and black clothes. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is able to make almost anything out of random pieces of junk.

History: He was raised in a white middle class family as the only child. Oren was born on a far eastern desert where he grew up under the tutelage of his father, an expert Masseuse. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: To end his boredom.

Ideals: Athletic, Passionate, Gifted. Flaws: Insane, Mundane. Bonds: Immigrant. Occupation: Masseuse

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 6000 sp. Azurite (7 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.