Description: This man is very fat, and wears tight fitting pants and leather jackets. He usually doesn't wear a shirt. His hair is black and curly. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: Confrontational and typically high on some drug or another. Animals are drawn to him, and he is able to talk to them.

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. In his 14th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his father impaled in their home, and his mother beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: To settle down with his crush; and marry his brother to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Gifted. Flaws: Ugly, Addict, Fearful. Bonds: Family, Has a crush. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 1600 sp. Rhodochrosite (9 gp). Sardonyx (60 gp). 3 Antitoxin. 2 Acid flasks.

Description: This late middle aged man is wearing the road beaten gear of a warrior and is in decent physical shape. His gray fur is matted, messy, and big. His eyes are copper and beady.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. His job bores him to no end. He has decided to make it more interesting.

History: Three was born the youngest of three triplets. A gypsy cursed him at a young age, leading to his ugly appearance. By chance he met his sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: He feels that his past leaves him morally obligated to help; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Fighting, Persistence. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Criminal record, Family. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Indian accent

Possessions: 900 gp. A large tome filled with over one hundred recipes written by a former royal chef. (70 gp). A miniature (3 inch) silver gauntlet, trimmed in mother-of-pearl (80 gp).

Description: This slender man stands about 3'0". He wears silk and lounges about seductively. He sports a flattop hair cut. His gray eyes are slightly larger than normal.

Personality: He snorts whenever he laughs or is feeling confident. His respect, as difficult as one would find it to earn, is unwavering; those who more than prove themselves to him, a bar set well above any reasonable standard, he tolerates in varying degrees. Though less modest and more hasty in his reactions to snap at those who irritate him, Hobart is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: Hobart was born into a poor family. Growing up, he dreamt of becoming a Warlock, to bring honor to his family’s name. When he came of age, he applied for a position with his town's local guard, looking to work his way up via merit and eventually become a Warlock in service of a powerful lord somewhere. His father took him hunting and taught him how to get in the mind of other creatures. He has made many enemies by not giving into corruption and outing many instances of it.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and meet up once more with his childhood friend

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Attractive, Poor, Adventurer, Nature. Occupation: Farmer

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 700 gp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A middle-aged man, he is armored in gleaming platemail with gilded edges. A flowing black cape and mantle trimmed with soft brown waves gently in the breeze, and is pretty ugly. He has shaved his head bald. This hazel eyed westerner is not easily forgotten.

Personality: He tends to agree with only himself unless someone else's opinion sounds like he can profit from it. He tries to control his temper but he can't always stop himself from what he feels what must be done. When triggered he is a bloodthirsty maniac, stopping at nothing and killing everything for almost an hour.

History: He was a bastard born out of an affair, and his father always resented and mistreated him for it out of spite. His father had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He is untrained/undisciplined, which makes him dangerous.

Motivation: He will attempt to ambush and attack anyone he thinks he can take on alone and try to knock them out with non-lethal damage. If successful, he will try to sell them to his slave-trader contact.

Flaws: Ugly, Antagonistic, Insane. Bonds: Rich, Criminal record. Occupation: Hunter

Voice: Aggressive tone

Possessions: 12000 sp.

Description: He wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. He is bald on top and has large auburn tufts of hair around his ears. Judging by the bloodshot nature of his eyes and the massive bags underneath them one would imagine he has not slept for days.

Personality: He has a massive crush on the younger sibling of the Map Maker who has hired him part-time. 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: Anselm lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: He has a crush on the local Apothecary; and his spouse's relatives view him with great suspicion

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Insomniac. Bonds: Has a crush, Family. Occupation: Map Maker

Voice: Deep voice with rolling R's

Possessions: Just what you see.