Description: This man is tall and muscular. He wears light armors faded through time and improper care. His brown hair, when down, is lengthy. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Bathin is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He is fiercely devoted to his father, and views his father's ex-spouse as an evil person for separating him from his legal half-brother.

History: Bathin lived on a farm with his father, near the main road leading to a nearby town. His father disappeared, and while he tried to raise money to find his father, he was betrayed dozens of times. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: To reunite with his absent father; and wants to work out more often

Ideals: Athletic, Extrovert. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Interpreter

Voice: Speaks with a cold

Possessions: 70 pp. Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (2400 gp). An abacus with copper, silver and gold markers (80 gp). Gold music box (2000 gp). A delicate brass dragon egg (80 gp).

Description: A man with a cold, calculating air about him, he is generally well dressed albeit a few years behind the times. He has a small bristly mustache and wavy chestnut hair. He wears round tiny glasses practically rammed into his face.

Personality: Cocky and sure of himself, he believes he is the best Guard born in the past three hundred years. He takes great pride in his work and is very well organized. His planner is full of calendar events.

History: Born to a pair of adventurers, Paggen grew up listening to his father's many stories. At a young age both his parents were killed in an accident. His uncle (a powerful person with enemies on both sides of the law) took him in and had him trained in basic self defense. As of late he has set up a hidden staging nest where he ambushes people he hires for escort.

Motivation: He has money and likes to spend it; and he wants to meet his childhood hero

Bonds: Attractive, Job, Adventurer, Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Old thin voice

Possessions: 200 gp. Brass mug with jade inlays (200 gp).

Description: He is an average looking eastern male in his early mid-life. He is dressed in a clean grey cloak covering his clean studded leather. He has chestnut hair. His hazel eyes dart around the room hyper actively observing anyone and anything.

Personality: He loves telling others what to do and how they should feel about things. He dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. His biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his mother and father. His mother taught him the rudiments of the Shipwright arts, while his father instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. A few years later when the west was not economically sound they moved to his current location. He knows his nephew is from a royal line that had remained secret for centuries, but promised not to tell anyone. So far, no-one knows but him.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Opinionated, Logical. Bonds: Rich, Immigrant, Job. Occupation: Shipwright

Voice: Scandinavian accent

Possessions: 270 gp.

Description: He wears a green collared shirt and tan pants. He accessorizes with a red scarf around the waist and a strap diagonally across his shirt. His hair is cut close to his head. His voice is smooth and creepy, always level, but somehow just slightly unnerving.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is afraid of women and trembles around them

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. His first spouse was a Weaver, they had one son, but his spouse won total custody. Without his spouse to temper him he grew out of control. He eventually got the idea of being the protector of his homeland from reading books, and has made it his duty.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to clean up the streets

Flaws: Insane, Shy. Bonds: Guardian, Military, Family. Occupation: Servant

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 200 gp. 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is dressed in earthy colors with a brown and green handkerchief worn on his left side. His fur is greying and his face has many wrinkles. His amber eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: The child of northern immigrants he idolized his father. 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: Seeks redemption; and he is a bit of a kleptomaniac

Ideals: Philantrophist, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Spits and sputters

Possessions: 10 pp. 1 Masterwork Heavy wooden shield.