Description: This man wears yellow painted combat armor at almost all times. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized ruby on his left hand. He has no hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: He can speak with the recently deceased. He passes on several rewards to people in need. He makes a point to leave places better than he found them.

History: He is the product a well kept family trust fund and as such has never really known need. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure; and he is greedy

Ideals: Gifted, Philantrophist. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Tailor

Voice: Hollow voice

Possessions: 10000 cp. Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp). Embroidered and bejeweled glove (1000 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (1200 gp).

Description: A 6'8" southern man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His red crest is smooth and relatively long. His gold eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He's a bit of a prankster. He knows he is clumsy and seen as such and will often feign amnesia after injury. He always tries to repair and not replace. It was this mentality that drove him into the Healer business.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. He was taken from his home at a very young age. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and he wants nothing more than to rejoin the army

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Joker, Persistence. Bonds: Military, Slave. Occupation: Healer

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 500 gp. Alexandrite (1400 gp). Zircon (20 gp). Rose (20 gp). Amber (130 gp). Chrysoberyl (130 gp). Malachite (14 gp). Freshwater pearl (14 gp).

Description: This eastern man does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. His clothes are grease stained in places. He wears his rusty crest up. His otherwise smooth face is marked with small tiny scars.

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 uses divination through singing.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He left for the east, certain he would find work there.

Motivation: He made a deal with a demon which lead to his current lot in life, and he's becoming increasingly nervous about it.

Ideals: Gifted. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive, Slave. Occupation: Server

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 700 pp. Cloth of gold vestments (150 gp). Silver ewer (40 gp). Jeweled gold crown (6000 gp). A roughly beaten golden orb (150 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (40 gp). Carved bone or ivory statuette (40 gp). Brass mug with jade inlays (100 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: A 5'3" eastern man, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his crossbow with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He has dyed his greying white hair a little too much giving a sharp white color. He wears crescent spectacles with a black brim.

Personality: Balam wants to be seen as a stoic, levelheaded, noble Expert, so he tries to act the part. He does a good job, for the most part... 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, Balam is combative with any and all who dare try his patience in the slightest.

History: He was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. His mother had invested heavily in several trade routes and wanted him to inherit them. He now owns his own business.

Motivation: A need for knowledge about a nearby landmark; and balancing his hectic life and new laborer responsibilities is difficult

Ideals: Disciplined, Justice. Bonds: Rich, Job, Adventurer. Occupation: Laborer

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 6000 sp.

Description: His right side is far more bruised and cut up than his other. He wears very tight pants and wife beaters, though occasionally he sports a red coat. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. His face possesses mild wrinkles. His smile is extraordinarily sincere though he does not smile often.

Personality: Prone to second guessing himself, he comes off as nervous. He is obsessed with his god.

History: From birth he was tutored by a cruel and relentless mentor. He dropped out of school before completing his studies. He routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and to share knowledge with the world

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Religious, Mentor. Occupation: Ploughman

Voice: Scratchy, weak

Possessions: 330 gp. Chalcedony (80 gp). 1 Darkwood Buckler.