Description: A plain young-adult man, he tends to wear a black poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. His black crest is slicked back into a classic pompadour. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Nykkan hangs on like a leech to those who appreciate him. It was this clingy personality that held back his writing career. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the east. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother 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 has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: Wants to have a good time and be beloved; and he desires power and/or immortality

Ideals: Artistic, Optimist. Bonds: Adventurer, Poor, Attractive. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 8000 sp. Blue sapphire (700 gp). 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is a mite stocky and wears a blue armored body suit, with a simple red line shooting up and back down. His chestnut hair is greasy and uncared for. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

Personality: He is filled with cunning. He likes to feign weakness letting people think he is weak. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: He was born to loving parents in a slum to the north. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He was always very intelligent and has formed a secret society of freemasons.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his brother; and to get a good night's sleep

Flaws: Ugly, Secretive, Hedonist. Bonds: Poor. Occupation: Cook

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in a clean violet cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has moderate length blonde hair. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is someone who is used to having a large amount of sex appeal. He also lacks a concept of privacy and shares just about everything. He can see the true alignment of people by looking at them, and uses this to pass judgement.

History: The child of eastern immigrants he idolized his mother. His psionic abilities were realized during a raid on his village. Since then, he has sought to make the best of life.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the east; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Gifted, Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Attractive, Immigrant. Occupation: Dilettante

Voice: Speaks with lips pursed

Possessions: 400 gp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of his veins is visible when he is not flexing. His shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for him due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His eyes are silver and he is always smoking a pipe.

Personality: He is a sleazy, sleazy guy. He has no qualms about using his powers of suggestion to get people to do what he wants. He receives visions of the future at random moments

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. Brilliant and gifted he never wanted to apply himself. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Gifted. Bonds: Attractive, Military, Family. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Uses lots of figures of speech

Possessions: Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (800 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2200 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (600 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He is of a modest build and height, but he carries himself more imposing than he is. He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He has gleaming, smiling amber eyes.

Personality: He is inclined to make off color jokes and interpret anything that could be construed as such as innuendo. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. He worked as a nervous Crown-heir and found it very stressful. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: He is unsatisfied with his job.

Ideals: Joker, Opinionated. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Job. Occupation: Crown-heir

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: Just what you see.