Description: This man is bedraggled and starved. He is wearing a tight blue one piece outfit complete with pants, hood, and a cape. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. His face is full, his cheeks are rosy, and he always seems to sport a perfect smile and a twinkle in his green eyes.

Personality: Here is a man who knows he is the smartest in the room. He talks down to others constantly. Hoshû enjoys physical pleasures, and is well known for his love of warm baths in the hot springs near the town.

History: The child of a Engraver, who enjoyed hunting, Hoshû was taken on many hunting expeditions. 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 bought a morningstar and has really upped his game hunting, due to his understanding of decoy and ambush.

Motivation: He feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world; and he doesn't get along with people that don't share his tastes

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Hedonist. Bonds: Poor, Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Layabout

Voice: Farmer accent

Possessions: 2000 gp. Obsidian (14 gp). Rhodochrosite (14 gp). Black opal (700 gp). Zircon (60 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: With white face paint in a stripe pattern across his face, he is dressed in a clean blue cloak covering his clean studded leather. His black fur is long and unkept. His face is scarred and worn.

Personality: He is overprotective of those who hire his services. He loves his children and doesn't want them to worry about him. He loves to share his music with anyone who is interested.

History: Born in a small village he learned the ways of the warrior from his father. He has had some formal music training, and achieved minor success. When his spouse passed he lost his only source of income but claims to his daughters to still be retired.

Motivation: Find a way to reverse the transformation of his sister; and marry his sister to traveling adventurers

Ideals: Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Guardian, Family. Occupation: Barber

Voice: French accent

Possessions: 30 pp. 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A man of a pale complexion, he wears tattered old clothes. He sports a flattop hair cut. He wears a mask on his 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. He moves from fascination to fascination almost instantaneously. If something can keep his interest for a month it is impressive.

History: His father raised him in a mountain cabin. He went to a religious school and was inspired by the priests there in charitable deeds. He was recently attacked on the road and savagely beaten by bandits.

Motivation: He has a rivalry with the Church that dominates his actions; and his religion dominates his actions

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Ugly, Hedonist. Bonds: Nature, Religious. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 4000 gp.

Description: He dresses well, typically a more casual-formal manner, but does not cut a very imposing figure. He walks with a slouch but will stand straight to his full 6'1" when asserting himself. He has moderate length blue crest. His red unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He dislikes all the random violence that takes place in the north. He also hits on women, regardless of circumstances.

History: Fax was born in the north. At a young age he loved to build and create. His father was a mechanic, and taught him how to fix just about anything. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and wants a kiss

Ideals: Pacifist, Persistence. Flaws: Disease. Bonds: Attractive, Has a crush. Occupation: Priest

Voice: Jittery and nervous

Possessions: 3000 gp. Silver-plated steel longsword with jet jewel in hilt (900 gp). A necklace of small pink pearls (6000 gp). Gold dragon comb with red garnet eye (1800 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Carved harp of exotic wood with ivory inlay and zircon gems (900 gp). Gold and topaz bottle stopper cork (1800 gp). Old masterpiece painting (2400 gp). Jeweled anklet (3000 gp). Large well-done wool tapestry (200 gp). Eyepatch with mock eye of sapphire and moonstone (2400 gp).

Description: The man speaks with an almost imperceptible accent. He seems to always be the slightest bit damp as if he got out from a pool a few moments ago. He does not wear sleeves and tends to eschew shirts when he can avoid it. He has dyed his greying gold crest a little too much giving a sharp gold color. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He is unhospitable to his core. His small house has "No trespassing" Signs all over it. He refers to his adoptive mother for almost all things he is unsure about, which are numerous. He is very much still a child and has not developed a drive for self-dependency.

History: He was born several months after his mother was called into army service. His mother worked until he suffered an accident while they were digging through a hill for a new route. He had to support his now crippled mother and took his mother's old job. He was betrayed by a partner and left for dead, teaching him a humbling lesson in trusting others.

Motivation: Doesn't want to be a Adventurer and was forced into it by his family; and regain custody of his daughter

Ideals: Entrepeneur. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Immigrant, Family, Military. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Speaks with squeezed throat

Possessions: 300 gp.