Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He likes to wear ponchos typically of a light red in addition to tight pants. He has styled his black crest well, parting it to the right. His gold eyes peer out from beneath his top red hat.

Personality: He is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, he's a very lovable idiot. 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: Born to a poor family in the city he treasured whatever gifts he got. His father was a soldier and died while he was still young. Baradad was left his father's suit of armor and trained in its use and care. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 7 years.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and to unite with his brother

Ideals: Optimist, Entrepeneur. Bonds: Poor, Military, Job, Family. Occupation: Detective

Voice: Posh accent

Possessions: 300 gp. Iolite (60 gp). Jet (130 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: He dresses like a well dressed Gardener does, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'6" when asserting himself. He has no crest. He has gold eyes.

Personality: While he acts the brute, he is far gentler than he would appear. 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: He was born into a rich family. He inherited a moderately successful company from his father. Under his leadership it has flourished, and using capital from his venture he effectively owns an entire region. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the south; and money/treasure

Ideals: Fighting, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Gardener

Voice: Prounounces S like Z

Possessions: 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man with a calm yet intense air about him, he wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his greataxe with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He keeps his white hair in a flapper bob. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He considers himself the protector of his home. He feels this is his duty and calling. He is lazy, self-centered, vain, and jealous.

History: Born to a Banker, his mother struggled to pay the bills. Jocelyn was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Jocelyn decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

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; and he has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day

Flaws: Ugly, Selfish. Bonds: Guardian, Poor, Criminal record. Occupation: Sculptor

Voice: Can't modulate volume

Possessions: 100 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: This man is very fat, and wears tattered old clothes. His long golden hair reaches down to his waist. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He cares much about the opinion of others, both in good and in bad: when keeping in line with his opinion, he thinks highly of the other person, but when opinions clash, he can get violently argumentative. He also has developed a complete distrust of the Server profession.

History: Born to a Server, his mother struggled to pay the bills. When he was little, his rather wealthy family often ventured across the mountains to a summer home near a large cave. He would wander through that large cave and adventure through it for days. One day while adventuring a terrible storm took place and he was stranded inside. His family spent the next few days looking for him, and could only assume he was dead when it came time to leave. The family never returned to the mountains due to the painful memories there. Alvyn took refuge in the large cave and found the beat up shield and armor he uses now. He has worked as a Spice Merchant like his mother before him.

Motivation: Balancing his hectic life and new Spice Merchant responsibilities is difficult.

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Poor, Nature. Occupation: Spice Merchant

Voice: Sleepy voice

Possessions: 200 gp. An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (40 gp). Ceremonial electrum dagger with a star ruby in the pommel (1200 gp). Fire opal pendant on a fine gold chain (900 gp).

Description: He is a physically imposing light-skinned man. He wears a worn and beaten armor. He has styled his brown hair well, parting it to the left. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: He shows great sympathy to all travelers. He's the type to buy drinks and listen to their stories. He is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in his opinion.

History: He was born several months after his father was called into army service. He was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. He is searching for what he claims is his rightful reward.

Motivation: He wants nothing more than to rejoin the army; and obtaining odd cultural halfling artifacts is his passion

Ideals: Philantrophist, Opinionated. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Adventurer, Military. Occupation: Shoemaker

Voice: Old Prospector

Possessions: 400 gp.