Description: He wears an old set of leather armor, nicked and torn by the ravages of time and battle. He is portly but not overly obese. His blonde hair is thinning but still full. He has a tattooed face.

Personality: He is quiet and reserved most of the time, but warms up to people very quickly. Around friends he is liable to tell dirty jokes and enjoy himself. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing music.

History: His psionic talent manifested at a young age. Aiming to upstage a rival house, his parents had him trained. His parents enrolled him in a Bard school at a young age so that he could practice his psionic talents. He found several beat up suits of armor and, cannibalizing spare parts, he put together a working one.

Motivation: He's in love; and to protect his home

Ideals: Joker, Artistic, Gifted, Persistence. Occupation: Blacksmith

Voice: Low and grunting

Possessions: 50 gp.

Description: This man is moderately tanned and has just the faintest trace of an accent. He wears black painted combat armor at almost all times. His white hair is kept up in a ponytail inside a deerstalker hat. His fierce green eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: Bulzo hails from a village terrorized by dire rats. Bulzo was born on a far northern plains where he grew up under the tutelage of his mother, an expert Mortician. He became a Mortician soon after.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge; and he'd like to take his coworkers down a peg

Ideals: Opinionated. Bonds: Immigrant, Job, Enemies. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 500 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This tall, slender man is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze. He wears a broad hat to cover his moderate length brown hair. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is curt in most of his responses. He prefers to keep his word usage to a minimum to avoid giving away unnecessary information. He is motivated by money and will often try and persuade people to work for cheap. He haggles over everything, upselling his goods and buying cheap. He is persistent in everything.

History: A child with a great deal of writing talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. 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 west. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: His relatives are trying to arrange a marriage; and to unite with his sister

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Shy. Bonds: Rich, Family. Occupation: Architect

Voice: Boston accent

Possessions: 300 gp.

Description: 6'8" and lanky with angular features, he is an attractive figure. He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He keeps his silver hair in a pixie cut. His green eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: Friendly and accommodating he would invite many more into his home than his spouse would be comfortable with if they did not express concern about it. He keeps company with all sorts of races to see how they think and challenge minds foreign to his own.

History: He was born blind and as such lacked many opportunities for work. 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 now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Several ex partners dislike his way of doing things and want revenge.

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Philantrophist, Gifted. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 11000 sp. Eye agate (6 gp). Hematite (6 gp). Black pearl (1300 gp). Silver pearl (60 gp). Freshwater pearl (6 gp). Zircon (60 gp). Jasper (60 gp). Star ruby (500 gp). Banded agate (6 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He prefers to wear grey clothing when he does not wear armor. He has a moderate pudge and is not very fit. His long brown hair reaches down to his waist. His eyes are likewise brown. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: Kellen is depressed about a lot of things. He tends to be a nihilist. He is a ruthless business man, a trait he acquired from his mother.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. He left for the north, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: A deep hatred of gnolls; and his name or reputation has been wronged in the past by gnolls, and he desires to right it

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Depressed. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Enemies. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: Just what you see.