Description: He is an exceptionally muscular looking eastern young adult. He wears tattered old clothes. Beneath his clothing is a huge mess of scar tissue. His hair is dark red and very short. His eyes are red and catlike.

Personality: His tongue was cut out and he uses sign language. The war was a terrible time for him, and Paymon does not often speak of it. When he does, he does so with a strained expression and tears in his eyes.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He feels kind of lost in life; and he is currently in port desperately looking for someone to get him out

Flaws: Ugly, Disease, Depressed. Bonds: Slave, Military. Occupation: Apothecary

Voice: Pronounces difficult words wrong

Possessions: 100 gp. Golden yellow topaz (300 gp).

Description: He is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright blue and black, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly swords and crossbows. He keeps his golden hair in a pixie cut. His eyes are a pleasant amber.

Personality: He hates Halflings with a passion. As such he is filled with self loathing. He is a very good compulsive liar and kleptomaniac.

History: Pikar was born in the south. At a young age he loved to build and create. He struck it rich when he found rare goods in large quantities. One night he noticed a nearby shooting star which he hiked out to see where it landed. It turned out to be an ancient artifact of some kind. He has done his darndest to repair it but it is currently non-functional.

Motivation: He wants to meet his childhood hero; and halfling compassion

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Racist. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record, Adventurer. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 4000 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Old masterpiece painting (900 gp). Sapphire pendant on gold chain (1800 gp). Golden circlet with four aquamarines (5000 gp). Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (500 gp). A pair of blacksmith’s puzzle; each has a pair of interlocked iron designs that users try to take apart and put back together (30 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (200 gp).

Description: His skin is bronze and flawless. He is renowned for his bright brown suits and hats. He is an epitome of beauty. His chestnut hair has been sun bleached extensively. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his gray eyes.

Personality: He thrives on attention. He does whatever is in his power to gain the attention of whomever he deems a fit date. He is obsessed with a lost civilization.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his mother always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. 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 has dedicated himself to building a better kind of golem.

Motivation: He has passion for adventuring and risk; and further expansion of business

Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Attractive, Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Carter

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: He is an average looking southern male in his early mid-life. He is wearing a long, grey, dusty cloak. His beige fur is smooth and relatively long. His fierce amber eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: This man loves writing and to teach people writing more than just about anything. He is obsessed with finding treasure.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. From there he went from mercenary job to mercenary job. In his journeys he found a malevolent artifact. He wishes to return this artifact and its corrupting influence back to where it came.

Motivation: Marry his sister to traveling adventurers; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Artistic, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Adventurer, Family. Occupation: Jeweler

Voice: Dutch accent

Possessions: 100 sp. Tourmaline (90 gp).

Description: This northern man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his nunchaku with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. His clothes are grease stained in places. His hair is always cut to a buzz. His brown unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He can speak with the dead, and doesn't see much difference between the living and dead. He will pursue extreme courses of action in the short term, confident that they cannot fail.

History: A studious child he never was much for a social life, not because he was unlikable, but because he did not seek it out. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Someone believes him a fraud; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant. Occupation: Cartwright

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 2600 sp. 1 Breastplate. 1 Half-Plate.